A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.

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Gig Young

Jones

Lee Grant

Carrie Miller

Denise Nickerson

Paula Miller

Herb Edelman

Harry

William Smithers

Doctor Miller

James McEachin

Highway Patrolman