Film

Gas Food Lodging

When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.

6.3

1h 41m

1992

“When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.”

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.

Director

Allison Anders

Trailer

DramaRomance

sibling relationshipwaitressparent child relationshipnew mexicodinercoming of agesingle motherteenage daughterunwanted pregnancywoman directormother daughter relationship