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Badlands
1974 1h 34m PG
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An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
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Directed By
Terrence Malick
Written By
Terrence Malick
Studio
Pressman-Williams
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Jill Jakes Production
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Cast of Badlands
Martin Sheen
Kit Carruthers
Sissy Spacek
Holly Sargis
Warren Oates
Holly's Father
Ramon Bieri
Cato
Alan Vint
Deputy
Gary Littlejohn
Sheriff
John Carter
Rich Man
Bryan Montgomery
Boy
Gail Threlkeld
Girl
Charles Fitzpatrick
Clerk
John Womack Jr.
Trooper
Howard Ragsdale
Boss
Dona Baldwin
Maid
Ben Bravo
Gas Attendant
Terrence Malick
Caller at Rich Man's House (uncredited)
Li Po Lung
Chinese Kid (uncredited)
Charlie Sheen
Boy Under Lamppost (uncredited)
Emilio Estevez
Boy Under Lamppost (uncredited)
Badlands Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Among the great American crime movies, 1973's Badlands stands alone.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Kit is played by Martin Sheen, in one of the great modern film performances.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Malick's film, full of striking cutaways to the burning-sun horizon and the harsh landscape's solitary creatures, comes to operate at an overpoweringly chilling remove.
Slant Magazine
Tina Hassannia
It's a testament to Bruce Greenwood's acting that Adan never becomes entirely as insufferable as the words that come out of his mouth.
Slate
Steve Erickson
If a portion of American cinema is going to remain devoted to violence, it could learn a lot by revisiting Malick's thoughtfulness.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Days of Heaven put Terrence Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins.
Variety
Variety Staff
Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...the first of Malick's many screen Edens, all of which inevitably come to a violent end.
Cinemania
Dan Jardine
Bonnie and Clyde without the Freud, but with a darker, more incomprehensible underbelly.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Incredibly beautiful, of course (you may have heard that Malick movies are famous for their landscapes), but it's not "just" beautiful.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
This tender treatment does nothing to alleviate the horror of the atrocities committed.
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
Malick has come to be known and revered as a cinematic poet and philosopher, as a filmmaker who explores big ideas, but in Badlands in particular he also shows a knack for off-kilter humor.
Movie Mezzanine
Christopher Runyon
The movie is just as free, experimental, and unsure of itself as its main characters are, and thus fits like a glove.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Michael Nordine
One of Malick's most resonant notions in Badlands is that everyone confronts mortality in his or her own way.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
In his debut, Terrence Malick is an uncanny creator of pearlescent forms, a very stark balladeer, Mark Twain's coolly ferocious heir
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Terrence Malick introduced his odd yet highly compelling filmmaking style in this 1973 feature.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Like Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands could be seen as a poetic ballad or folktale, but unlike that film, it doesn't romanticize its protags, instead using distancing devices such as Sissy Spacek's affectless narration.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] Terrence Malick's self-penned feature debut is a haunting road movie pitched in '50s Americana. The film's razor-sharp tone of poetic irony is unique.
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