Holly's father disapproves of Kit and kills her dog as punishment for spending time with him. As they become closer, his violent and antisocial tendencies are gradually revealed. After Kit charms Holly, he takes her virginity.
He resembles James Dean, an actor whom Holly admires. Holly meets Kit Carruthers, a 25-year-old garbage collector, troubled greaser and Korean War veteran. She has a strained relationship with her father, a sign painter, since her mother's death from pneumonia years earlier. Holly Sargis narrates the film as a 15-year-old living in Fort Dupree, a dead-end South Dakota town. At the 49th British Academy Film Awards, Spacek was nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Sheen won the Best Actor award.īadlands is often cited by film critics as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time, and was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in 1993, four years after the National Film Registry was established, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
īadlands was released in 1973 to positive reviews from critics, who particularly praised its cinematography, soundtrack-which includes pieces by Carl Orff-and the lead performances. While the story is fictional, it is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958. The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and follows Holly Sargis (Spacek), a 15-year old who goes on a killing spree with her partner, Kit Carruther (Sheen) the film also stars Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri. Badlands is a 1973 American neo-noir period crime drama film written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, in his directorial debut.
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