Rent Badlands (1973)

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1h 30min
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Synopsis:
In 1959, Kit (Martin Sheen) who has killed several people, and his new girlfriend Holly (Sissy Spacek), who watched him do it, are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment across South Dakota and Montana. They're playing make-believe but the bullets and bloodshed are very real...
Actors:
, , , , , , , , Gail Threlkeld, Charles Fitzpatrick, Howard Ragsdale, , , Ben Bravo, , Li Po Lung, ,
Directors:
Producers:
Terrence Malick
Writers:
Terrence Malick
Studio:
Warner
Genres:
Classics, Drama, Romance
Collections:
Award Winners, Films by Genre, The Best American Road Movies, The Biggest Oscar Snubs: Part 1
BBFC:
Release Date:
26/05/2003
Run Time:
90 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, French, German, Italian, Italian Hard of Hearing, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • 'The Absence Of Malick' featurette - Interviews with the Cast and Crue
  • Interactive menus
  • Scene access
  • Trailers
BBFC:
Release Date:
20/05/2019
Run Time:
94 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Making "Badlands", a new documentary featuring actors Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek and art director Jack Fisk
  • New interviews with associate editor Billy Weber and executive producer Edward Pressman
  • "Charles Starkweather", a 1993 episode of the television program American Justice, about the real-life story on which the film was loosely based
  • Trailer

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Reviews (2) of Badlands

Badlands - Badlands review by RC

Spoiler Alert
09/10/2019

If you liked true romance and natural born killers watch this film Which I assume inspired them both. No feet shots tho :(

2 out of 3 members found this review helpful.

True Crime. - Badlands review by Steve

Spoiler Alert
03/10/2022

Low budget true crime story about two teenagers who killed 11 people without apparent motive in 1950s South Dakota. The ages of the characters were raised to accommodate the lead actors, Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, who are sensational. Terrence Malick's script isn't all that faithful to the exact events; it's a modernist film which creates an ambient impression of their altered reality.

The names of Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate are changed to Kit and Holly. For a while they live in a treehouse and then they kill a lot of people. Holly's detached narrative voice suggests she has no understanding of the world, and feels zero responsibility for their actions. They are like unsupervised children, making up the rules of their games as they go.

Much of the film is about their accumulating celebrity as they drive through the American heartland and murder mercilessly and impassively. Even the police, who had two men shot down in their pursuit, bask in the reflected notoriety of Kit's fame. The midwest is presented as a wretched wasteland; arid, barren and ugly. The rural poor are depicted as an ignorant people with a moribund culture.

Badlands is one of the key pictures of its decade and has become a model for a crime subgenre; the romance of two inexperienced lovers living on the road, triggering a wave of terror. It's all atmosphere, mostly shot at night with a score of twangy old time rock and roll and Nat King Cole. Everything happens slowly and without apparent purpose. Many films are ripping this off now.

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