Synopsis
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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Cast
- Martin SheenKit Carruthers
- Sissy SpacekHolly Sargis
- Warren OatesHolly's Father
- Ramon BieriCato
- Alan VintDeputy
- Gary LittlejohnSheriff
- John CarterRich Man
- Bryan MontgomeryBoy
- Gail ThrelkeldGirl
- Charles FitzpatrickClerk
Recommendations
- 100
Total Film
Refracted through Holly’s naive, emotionally flat narration and Malick’s poetic visual style, this familiar tale is transformed into something strange and oddly beautiful. [29 Aug. 2008] - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie makes no attempt to psychoanalyze its Kit Carruthers, and there are no symbols to note or lessons to learn. What comes through more than anything is the enormous loneliness of the lives these two characters lived, together and apart. - 100
Empire
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. [26 May 2003] - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Among the great American crime movies, 1973's Badlands stands alone. [13 Feb. 1998] - 100
The Guardian
An unmissable, transcendentally beautiful classic. [28 Aug. 1998] - 100
The New York Times
One may legitimately debate the validity of Malick's vision, but not, I think, his immense talent. Badlands is a most important and exciting film. - 100
Boston Globe
Badlands is one of the great banality-of-evil films. [29 May 1998, p.C9] - 100
Chicago Tribune
Badlands is about a landscape as much as the couple fleeing across it. Watching it, you sense that Malick finds his outlaw lovers beautiful and terrible, pathetic and monstrous, funny and overwhelmingly sad. [27 March 1998]
