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Name: Badlands
Released: 1974-3-24
Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint

Badlands

PG
1h 35m
1974

97%

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In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people. Martin Sheen and Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek star in the story of two young lovers who will do anything to be together...even commit murder. South Dakota. Twenty-five-year-old garbage man Kit Carruthers (Sheen), who idolizes James Dean, falls in love with 15-year-old Holly Sargis (Spacek). But when Holly's brutal father forbids their relationship, Kit kills the man, and the young lovers become fugitives in this story based on true events. Director Terrence Malick's (The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven) theatrical film debut.

Director:

Terrence Malick

Producer:

Terrence Malick, Edward R. Pressman

Writer:

Terrence Malick

Cast:

Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

97%

Critics Consensus: Terrence Malick's debut is a masterful slice of American cinema, rife with the visual poetry and measured performances that would characterize his work.

Reviews

Vague Visages

Erica Peplin

Some movies are so good that when they’re over, you almost expect the whole film industry to shut down.

It’s a well written tale of two lost souls dancing between idyllic naiveté and sociopathic violence. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.

August 19, 2022

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Battleship Pretension

Sarah Brinks

I didn't completely dislike the film. I was mostly just bored by it, which is often my criticism of Malick's films.

The film is admirable visually, verbally, psychologically. It took guts for a neophyte film maker still in his twenties to fire two cinematographers before a third gave him what he wanted; yet the result is seamlessly impeccable.

Terrence Malick's amazing debut feature, Badlands, which basically made the careers of everyone whose name was attached to it.

July 1, 2020

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