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Badlands

Director: Terrence Malick Run Time: 94 min. Format: 35mm Rating: PG Release Year: 1973

Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri

Inspired by real-life killers Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate, this tale of crime and love begins in a dead-end town. Teenage girl Holly (Sissy Spacek) angers her father (Warren Oates) when she begins dating an older and rebellious boy (Martin Sheen). After a conflict between Holly and her father erupts in murder, the young lovers are forced to flee. In the ensuing crime spree, they journey through the Midwest to the Badlands of Montana, eluding authorities along the way.

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