Julie Condra

Gas, Food Lodging -- This highly-acclaimed film tells the story of a struggling single mother, Brooke Adams, as she attempts to guide her teenage daughters, Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk, through the difficulties of growingup in a desolate New Mexico truck stop. Nora tries to save her daughters from making the same mistakes she made: loser men, early pregnancies and dead-end jobs.

"Beautiful" tells the story of Daniel, a shy and introverted 14 year old boy residing in Sunshine Hills, a suburb living in the grip of fear following the rumoured abductions of three teenage girls. Daniel's two main obsessions are photography and Suzy, a 17 year old Lolita, a dangerous combination of youth and sexuality.

After another teenage girl disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy (Tahyna Tozzi) suspects the involvement of the strange woman who lurks in the window of house number 46 and the rumbling black Ford that creeps the streets at sundown. Using her seductive charm, Suzy persuades Danny (Sebastian Gregory), her fourteen-year-old admirer, to help her uncover the truth.

Headstrong Mona Hubbard (Minnie Driver) is a fiercely driven woman with only one goal: to capture the coveted "Miss American Miss" beauty award. Unloved as a child, Mona sees the pageant as a means of gaining the attention and adoration she's long felt missing from her life. She is aided in her quest by the one person who can stomach her domineering ways, childhood friend and consummate nurturer Ruby (Joey Lauren Adams). Mona also finds an unexpected supporter in her own, long-neglected daughter, Vanessa (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), who, as the pageant looms closer, finally makes Mona realize where love and acceptance can truly be found.