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Gas Food Lodging (1992)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 24th, 2007
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Romancing the brother
Small towns usually equal only a few things. Closed minded rednecks, promiscuous young girls, lots of beer drinking and even more divorced, single moms trying to raise a**hole children. GAS, FOOD LODGING is no exception to these stereotypical traits of small-town living as portrayed on the silver screen. Yet the movie also serves to help us not just stare at them as if they were guests on an episode of Jerry Springer, but rather allows us to understand why they might be the way they are.
The movie centers around a single mom with two teen daughters in Laramie, New Mexico. As she slaves away at the local greasy diner, the older of the two daughters sleeps her way through the town's young male population as her younger daughter escapes her dismal circumstances by watching old movies starring her favorite Mexican movie star. The youngest daughter decides that life would be better, aka that mom and sis would stop fighting all the time, if she could only get a man. Well, she decides this among other things.
The main problem with the movie is that it doesn't seem to hold onto a tangible theme for very long. This can be frustrating for those people who are used to a story told in a straight line. Anders has gotten better in her directorial story-telling over the years, but there was a charm when she allowed the characters to take over and roam about on the screen. The only reason why someone who hasn't grown up in a small little dirt town can relate is because there is that freedom there. Because in reality, none of us really know where our stories are heading. That's the fun of living life: the crooked path that all of our stories tend to wind.
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