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- From: leroy@socs.uts.EDU.AU (Leroy)
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- Subject: Review: Gas Food Lodging
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 12:59:05 +1100
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- Review: Gas Food Lodging. Stars Ione Skye.
- Now showing at the Dendy, Martin Place Sydney
-
- A _nice_ movie. A mother and her two daughters live in a trailer park.
- The father has left. The older daughter has "a reputation." The mother
- is being pursued by a cowboy. The younger daughter misses the father,
- and she wants a boyfriend of her own.
-
- With that kind of outline, Gas Food Lodging doesn't have much chance
- at avoiding obvious cliches, and there are points where the film is
- terrifically dumb and/or obvious. But, overall, good performances (Ione
- Skye is as excellent as expected) save the film from an occasionally dull
- script. The narration, by the youngest daughter Shade, is teeth-grindingly
- terrible; but it's only a minor part of the action.
-
- Special mention for the group of Americans behind us, who obviously
- mistook the Gas Food Lodging sign for Under Seige, and spent the movie
- constantly agreeing with each other that, yes, the movie was soooooo
- slow, that they couldn't understand it and they wished any of the
- main characters would explode.
-
- Decide for yourself. It's not as insightful as, say, Chez Nous, but it's
- far better than Thelma and Louise (a notable feminist flagwaver).
- Unfortunately, it's about fifteen minutes too long. But I enjoyed it. The
- mysterious flatmate was unimpressed.
-
- Otherwise, go to the video store. Hire "Say Anything," a favourite
- movie of mine that also stars Ione Skye, as well as John Cusak. _That_
- is a great movie about teeenage love.
-
- --- G M Heinrich ( leroy@socs.uts.edu.au )
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