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6.2/10   265 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Michael O'Hara (written by)
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Release Date:
3 May 1993 (USA) more
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Plot:
A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree. | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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Spellbinding performance by Tim Roth in a disturbing film more (8 total)

Cast

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Tim Roth ... Charles Starkweather

Fairuza Balk ... Caril Ann Fugate
Kate Reid ... Pansy Street

Brian Dennehy ... John McArthur

Randy Quaid ... Elmer Scheele
Roberts Blossom ... Gus Meyer

Tom Bower ... Marion Bartlett
Rondi Reed ... Jonette Fox

Bob Gunton ... Governor Anderson

Ryan Cutrona ... C. Lauer Ward
Angie Bolling ... Clara Ward
Jake Carpenter ... Robert Jensen

Heather Kafka ... Carol King
Don Bloomfield ... Bobby Colvert
John Hussey ... Mr. Jensen
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Starkweather: Murder in the Heartland (USA) (long title)
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Runtime:
157 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Renée Zellweger's first film. more
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Version of Badlands (1973) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Spellbinding performance by Tim Roth in a disturbing film, 15 January 2001
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Author: jminer from Newcastle, Australia

Why anybody would want to retell the story of Charles Starkweather so many years after the events that made him notorious is beyond my comprehension.

Perhaps it was just meant to be a character study: Tim Roth dominates the entire show as a passionate, capricious, and utterly fascinating Starkweather.

The film disturbs me because I doubt that the real Starkweather was so interesting. Contemporary accounts suggest he was a sociopath unable to calibrate his responses to all those negative situations of life: envy, frustration, depression. The director has done a great job; the question is, why.

While this film is not well known compared with Pulp Fiction, even Rob Roy, Roth's performance is spellbinding - at least as good as his role in Reservoir Dogs.

It deserves to be seen, as a landmark of late 20th century, one of the really great performances by an actor, rather than a star turn by an overhyped PR product.

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