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Badlands
The film is a dramatic story about a rebellious young man who stirs up actor James Dean in his rebellion and recklessness meets a girl who lives with her father and treats her harshly. They run together and live a bohemian life and they carry out a series of crimes that make the police chase them and arrest them so that the girl is a witness to the king and recognizes the young man with all his crimes.
12 May 1962, New York City, New York, USA
3 September 1965, New York City, New York, USA
11 November 1944, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
3 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
20 July 1946, San Angelo, Texas, USA
5 July 1928, Depoy, Kentucky, USA
June 27, 2011
In his debut, Terrence Malick is an uncanny creator of pearlescent forms, a very stark balladeer, Mark Twain's coolly ferocious heir
January 01, 2000
Among the great American crime movies, 1973's Badlands stands alone.
May 07, 2013
In the fall of 1973, one could see signposts of cinema's future in Mean Streets and The Exorcist, yet with this youthful pair of proto-indie dreamers, Malick was paving a whole new road. It turned out to be the path most traveled.
May 22, 2013
This tender treatment does nothing to alleviate the horror of the atrocities committed.
August 29, 2008
This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema's equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern.
May 05, 2013
It's a testament to Bruce Greenwood's acting that Adan never becomes entirely as insufferable as the words that come out of his mouth.
April 01, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] Terrence Malick's self-penned feature debut is a haunting road movie pitched in '50s Americana. The film's razor-sharp tone of poetic irony is unique.
October 14, 2011
One of Malick's most resonant notions in Badlands is that everyone confronts mortality in his or her own way.
May 16, 2008
Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.
August 09, 2011
Malick has come to be known and revered as a cinematic poet and philosopher, as a filmmaker who explores big ideas, but in Badlands in particular he also shows a knack for off-kilter humor.
February 21, 2014
The movie is just as free, experimental, and unsure of itself as its main characters are, and thus fits like a glove.
February 08, 2010
Days of Heaven put Terrence Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins.
