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Allison Anders

Director

Allison Anders

Born November 16, 1954 in Ashland, Kentucky, USA12 films

Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director. Anders' films have been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant as well as a Peabody Award.

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Gas Food Lodging posterFirst watchGas Food Lodging19926.2Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Four Rooms poster5.9Four Rooms1995Grace of My Heart poster6.0Grace of My Heart1996

Filmography

12 films as director
  1. TBAIn the EchoDirector
  2. 2017BeachesDirector
  3. 2013Ring of FireDirector
  4. 2013StrutterDirector
  5. 2011A Crush on YouDirector
  6. 2001Things Behind the SunDirector
  7. 1999Sugar TownDirector
  8. 1996Grace of My HeartDirector
  9. 1995Four RoomsDirector
  10. 1994Mi Vida LocaDirector
  11. 1992Gas Food LodgingDirector
  12. 1987Border RadioDirector