Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury, Jacob Vargas, Donovan Leitch, Chris Mulkey

An indie film with that gritty, sand-in-your-mouth indie feel. And you can almost taste exactly that, as a single mother (Adams) and her two teenage daughters mope through their lives in a dusty and economically depressed New Mexico town. Mom is a diner waitress, Shade (Balk) is a dreamer, and Trudi (Skye) is a snarling rebel. Together they take meals at the diner and try to defy the truck-stop quality od their existence.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)