Anders ' second feature , the 1992 film '' Gas Food Lodging '' , earned her a New York Film Critics Circle Award and National Society of Film Critics honors for Best New Director ; and nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Director . Actress Fairuza Balk won a Spirit Award for her role in the film . The film also won the Deauville Film Festival Critics Award and was also nominated for the Golden Bear at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival . '' Gas Food Lodging '' is a coming-of-age story about a truck stop waitress and her two daughters , three vibrant , restless women in an isolated Western town . The screenplay was loosely adapted by Anders from the novel '' Do n't Look and It Wo n't Hurt '' by Richard Peck
42nd Berlin International Film Festival
42nd Berlin International Film Festival
Allison Anders