Badlands

1973

94 mins

Directed by Terrence Malick
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Drama
Romance

This American classic was Terrence Malick's first film, casting a young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in career-defining roles.

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This American classic was Terrence Malick's first film, casting a young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in career-defining roles.

Set in 1959, in Fort Dupre, South Dakota, this is a darkly comic drama about the tempestuous relationship between a 25-year-old garbageman (Sheen) and a impressionable 15-year-old girl (Spacek). Together they live a romanticised lifestyle, on the run from the lam after shooting the girl's father. Their killing spree takes them across the midwest; across the badlands.

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Badlands is available to stream in Australia now on Apple... More TV Store and Prime Video Store. Badlands is now playing in 1 cinema in Australia.

Badlands | Ratings & Reviews

97_%59 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
90_%26,497 reviews
Audience score rating

"Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut."

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Variety

"Makes for classic, troubling yet fascinating cinema."

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Urban Cinefile

"The unique, lilting music would subsequently crop up in True Romance, though Tarantino’s generation has yet to dethrone Badlands as the most haunting of all couple-on-the-run movies."

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Total Film

"The movie is very reserved in its attitude toward the characters. It observes them, most of the time, dispassionately."

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Roger Ebert

"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."

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