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.
Movie Gas Food Lodging
strong language, references to sexual violence, sex references, nudity
BBFC Ratings info
GAS, FOOD LODGING is a US drama, from 1992, in which a single mother struggles to raise her two teenage daughters in a trailer park.
Language:
There is strong language ('f**k'), alongside milder terms including 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'bullshit' and 'piss'.
Violence:
There are references to sexual violence when a young woman describes being gang raped.
Sex:
Verbal sex references include crude references to oral sex.
Nudity:
There is brief breast nudity during a sex scene between a man and woman.
A use of the discriminatory term 'wetback' is immediately rebuked and unendorsed by the work as a whole.
Sex & Nudity
mild
Sex & Nudity Reason
Two of the characters have sex. The females breasts are seen briefly.
A man and a woman engage in sexual intercourse during which the woman's breasts are seen.
Violence & Gore
none
Violence & Gore Reason
None.
Profanity
mild
Profanity Reason
Around 20 uses of the word f*ck. Several uses of other types of profanity.