Variety
Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.
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Badlands
This American classic was Terrence Malick's first film, casting a young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in career-defining roles.
Set in 1959, in Fort Dupre, South Dakota, this is a darkly comic drama about the tempestuous relationship between a 25-year-old garbageman (Sheen) and a impressionable 15-year-old girl (Spacek). Together they live a romanticised lifestyle, on the run from the lam after shooting the girl's father. Their killing spree takes them across the midwest; across the badlands.
1973Rating: R16, contains violence94 minsUSAEnglish and Spanish with English Subtitles
DramaRomanceClassic
- Director:
- Terrence Malick ('The Tree of Life', 'The New World', 'The Thin Red Line', 'Days of Heaven')
- Writer:
- Terrence Malick
- Cast:
- Martin SheenSissy SpacekWarren OatesRamon BieriAlan VintGary Littlejohn
Badlands / Reviews
Total Film
The unique, lilting music would subsequently crop up in True Romance, though Tarantino’s generation has yet to dethrone Badlands as the most haunting of all couple-on-the-run movies.
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Roger Ebert
The movie is very reserved in its attitude toward the characters. It observes them, most of the time, dispassionately.
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Empire Magazine
Achingly evocative of a time when Hollywood had the courage to invest in complex and morally ambiguous films and an indisputable masterpiece of American cinema.
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