Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Brooke Adams, David Lansbury, Donovan Leitch, Fairuza Balk, Ione Skye, Jacob Vargas, James Brolin, Robert Knepper
Synopsis:
Cast: Brooke Adams, David Lansbury, Donovan Leitch, Fairuza Balk, Ione Skye, Jacob Vargas, James Brolin, Robert Knepper
Synopsis:
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls’ absent father returns.
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