The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Metacritic78/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
78 audience votes
Key crew
- Allison AndersDirector
- Allison AndersScreenplay
- J. MascisOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Brooke AdamsNora
- Ione SkyeTrudi
- Fairuza BalkShade
- James BrolinJohn Evans
- Robert KnepperDank
- David LansburyHamlet
- Jacob VargasJavier
- Donovan LeitchDarius
- Chris MulkeyRaymond
- Laurie O'BrienThelma
- Julie CondraTanya
- Adam BieskBrett
Stills
Themes
sibling relationshipwaitressparent child relationshipnew mexicodinercoming of agesingle motherteenage daughterunwanted pregnancywoman directormother daughter relationship