This American classic was Terrence Malick's first film, casting a young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in career-defining roles.
Set in...
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.
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97 %59 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
90 %26,532 reviewsAudience score rating
"Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut."
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Variety
Variety"Makes for classic, troubling yet fascinating cinema."
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Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile"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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Total Film
Total Film"The movie is very reserved in its attitude toward the characters. It observes them, most of the time, dispassionately."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"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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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineBadlands | Details
- Rating
- R16, contains violence
- Runtime
- 94
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- USA
