Badlands
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75% Critic Match

Badlands

In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people.

7.5 / 10 1974 1h 34mPG English
CrimeDramaRomance

Storyline

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Cast & Crew

Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

Kit Carruthers

Lead
Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Holly Sargis

Warren Oates

Warren Oates

Holly's Father

Ramon Bieri

Ramon Bieri

Cato

Alan Vint

Alan Vint

Deputy

Gary Littlejohn

Gary Littlejohn

Sheriff

John Carter

John Carter

Rich Man

BM

Bryan Montgomery

Boy

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Terrence Malick's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Badlands is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker