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Writer:
Terrence Malick (written by)
Release Date:
7 April 1975 (Sweden)
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Tagline:
He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people. more
Plot:
Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands. full summary | add synopsis
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Killing Spree
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Badlands
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Murder
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1950s
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James Dean
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 3 wins
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NewsDesk:
(16 articles)
Terrence Malick: The Reluctant Auteur
(From t5m.com. 24 November 2009, 4:02 AM, PST)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #17
(From Rope Of Silicon. 15 November 2009, 1:17 AM, PST)
(From t5m.com. 24 November 2009, 4:02 AM, PST)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #17
(From Rope Of Silicon. 15 November 2009, 1:17 AM, PST)
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"Saw her standing on her front porch, just a-twirling her baton..."
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Martin Sheen | ... | Kit |
 | Sissy Spacek | ... | Holly |
 | Warren Oates | ... | Father |
| Ramon Bieri | ... | Cato |
| Alan Vint | ... | Deputy |
| Gary Littlejohn | ... | Sheriff |
| John Carter | ... | Rich Man |
| Bryan Montgomery | ... | Boy |
| Gail Threlkeld | ... | Girl |
| Charles Fitzpatrick | ... | Clerk |
| Howard Ragsdale | ... | Boss |
| John Womack Jr. | ... | Trooper |
| Dona Baldwin | ... | Maid |
| Ben Bravo | ... | Gas attendant |
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94 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:PG |
Australia:PG |
UK:15 (re-rating) (2008) |
UK:18 (video rating) |
Australia:M (DVD rating) |
New Zealand:R16 |
Finland:K-15 (re-rating) (2003) |
Finland:K-16 (re-rating) (1987) |
Ireland:15 |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG |
West Germany:16 |
Finland:K-18 (1980) |
Portugal:M/16 (DVD rating) |
UK:X (original rating)
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The actor that originally had to play the man that rings at the rich man's door did not show up, so Terrence Malick played it himself, although the intention was to use this part only temporarily.
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Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: For the last two lines in the discussion about the fudgecicle, the actors lips do not move.
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Quotes:
Kit Carruthers:
Hey, I found a toaster.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Entourage: No More Drama (#6.7)" (2009)
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Soundtrack:
A BLOSSOM FELL
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The serial killer genre is the most overdone in modern cinema, but director Terrence Mallick took a real life story to make his powerful debut, 'Badlands'. He even toned it down, his interest being not in presenting a picture of pure (and wholly artificial) evil but rather in portraying a wholly human story. Murder is depicted here in all its banality - people shot (off-screen) through locked doors, by a young man acting for wholly normal motives but without the customary restraints on behaviour that we term morals. The result is a haunting, though occasionally pretentious, study of individuals drifting beyond the bounds of civilisation, their physical location (America's still-wild west) symbolically matching their mental isolation. Sissy Spacek is particularly good as the ordinary girl just along for the ride. A fine film, 'Badlands' is also genuinely disturbing, in a way that Hannibal Lector could only dream of.