“Imagine The Last Picture Show shot in color and shaped by a rueful feminine perspective, in a place where women are hopelessly anchored while the men drift through like tumbleweed. The becalmed town of Laramie, N.M., is the setting in which Nora (Brooke Adams), a hard-working waitress with a knowing, generous grin, has tried to bring up her two unruly daughters. … Gas Food Lodging is a big film in a small setting, a keenly observed character study of women who don’t know their own strength. The film shows how they find that strength and heal old wounds, discovering great reserves of grace and hope in the process.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times, July 31, 1992