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Badlands is a 1973 American neo-noir period crime drama film written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, in his directorial debut. The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and follows Holly Sargis (Spacek), a 15-year old who goes on a killing spree with her partner, Kit Carruthers (Sheen).
Jan 5, 1974 · Badlands: Directed by Terrence Malick. With Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri. An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
- (78K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Terrence Malick
- 1974-01-05
Jun 24, 2011 · A classic road movie about two lovers who are criminals and are pursued across the vastness of America. Ebert praises Malick's visual style, his use of nature, and his lack of psychological explanation for their crimes.
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Inspired by real-life killers Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate, this tale of crime and love begins in a dead-end town. Teenage girl Holly (Sissy Spacek) angers her father (Warren Oates ...
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- Terrence Malick
- PG
- Martin Sheen
Summaries. An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands. It's the late 1950s. Mid-twenty-something Kit is a restless and unfocused young man with a James Dean vibe and swagger which he has heard mentioned about him more than once.
Roger Ebert October 15, 1973. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. They meet for the first time when she is in her front yard practicing baton-twirling. He has just walked off his job on a garbage truck. She thinks he is the handsomest man she’s ever seen -- he looks just like James Dean. He likes her because he never knew a fifteen ...
Badlands. Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.
