

Badlands
In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people.
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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7.5/10
1,408 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $300K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- mass murder
- based on true story
- fugitive
- on the run
- on the road
- killing spree
- south dakota
- badlands
- runaway couple
- fugitive lovers
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival13 Oct 1973
BrazilBR
- Theatrical13 Oct 1973
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival1 Jul 2007
FranceFR
- Theatrical123 Jun 1975
GermanyDE
- Theatrical161 Apr 1977
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1525 Apr 1975
IsraelIL
- PremiereJerusalem Film Festival14 Jul 2011
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival27 Aug 1975
- Theatrical5 Mar 1977
NetherlandsNL
- Physical6DVD23 Jan 2008
- Theatrical6Blu ray8 Nov 2017
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1517 Oct 1975
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Badlands was released on 13 October 1973.
Audience reviews
2- J5.5/10
John Chard
9/25/2014
Little did I realise that what began in the alleys and back ways of this quiet town would end in the Badlands of Montana. Badlands is written and directed by Terrence Malick. It stars Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Ramon Bieri and Warren Oats. Music is by George Tipton and James Taylor and cinematography by Tak Fujimoto, Steven Larner and Brian Probyn. Badlands seems to be adored by critics, often being coined as …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/3/2026
This is another of those films that I could just imagine James Dean doing, but as it is it's a charismatic Martin Sheen who dons the white T-shirt and the 501s and causes havoc with his younger girlfriend "Holly" (Sissy Spacek). "Kit" is a bit of a drifter who makes a living collecting the trash in 1950s rural America and who probably won't amount to much as he hangs about with her as if they were ten years younger. …
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