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Writer:
Terrence Malick (written by)
Release Date:
7 April 1975 (Sweden)
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He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people. more
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Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands. full summary | add synopsis
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Killing Spree
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Badlands
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Murder
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1950s
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James Dean
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 3 wins
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(15 articles)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #17
(From Rope Of Silicon. 15 November 2009, 1:17 AM, PST)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #15
(From Rope Of Silicon. 1 November 2009, 2:16 AM, PST)
(From Rope Of Silicon. 15 November 2009, 1:17 AM, PST)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #15
(From Rope Of Silicon. 1 November 2009, 2:16 AM, PST)
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Slower Is Better In This Crime Tale
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Martin Sheen | ... | Kit |
 | Sissy Spacek | ... | Holly |
 | Warren Oates | ... | Father |
| Ramon Bieri | ... | Cato |
| Alan Vint | ... | Deputy |
| Gary Littlejohn | ... | Sheriff |
| John Carter | ... | Rich Man |
| Bryan Montgomery | ... | Boy |
| Gail Threlkeld | ... | Girl |
| Charles Fitzpatrick | ... | Clerk |
| Howard Ragsdale | ... | Boss |
| John Womack Jr. | ... | Trooper |
| Dona Baldwin | ... | Maid |
| Ben Bravo | ... | Gas attendant |
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94 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:PG |
Australia:PG |
UK:15 (re-rating) (2008) |
UK:18 (video rating) |
Australia:M (DVD rating) |
New Zealand:R16 |
Finland:K-15 (re-rating) (2003) |
Finland:K-16 (re-rating) (1987) |
Ireland:15 |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG |
West Germany:16 |
Finland:K-18 (1980) |
Portugal:M/16 (DVD rating) |
UK:X (original rating)
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: For the last two lines in the discussion about the fudgecicle, the actors lips do not move.
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Kit Carruthers:
Hey, I found a toaster.
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Referenced in "Entourage: Berried Alive (#6.10)" (2009)
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Soundtrack:
LOVE IS STRANGE
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Made in the early 1970s, this was more of classic type crime story than a modern-day one in that the violence wasn't overdone and it was a slower-paced story than what you would see if re-made today.
That slower pace makes for a better study of the two main characters, who were based on the real-life serial-killing duo of the 1950s: Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend.
Martin Sheen's Starkweather-type character "Kit Carruthers" is amazingly low- key for a killer and Sissy Spacek, playing his girl, "Holly," shows some really strange reactions (she hardly reacts after Sheen shoots her father) while providing fascinating narration. In fact, the more I watch this film, the more Spacek's narration is the highlight for me. It's great stuff.
Being a Terrence Malick-directed film, you know you are going to get some nice photography. He really loves closeups of nature. Another plus is the absence of profanity. There is very little of it.