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When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Brooke AdamsNora
Ione SkyeTrudi
Fairuza BalkShade
James BrolinJohn Evans
Robert KnepperDank
David LansburyHamlet
Jacob VargasJavier
Donovan LeitchDarius
Chris MulkeyRaymond
Laurie O'BrienThelma
Julie CondraTanyaExplore the crew
- Director
- Allison Anders
- Screenplay
- Allison Anders
- Original Music Composer
- J. Mascis
- Director of Photography
- Dean Lent
- Editor
- Tracy Granger
- Producer
- William Ewart
- Producer
- Dan Hassid
- Producer
- Seth Willenson