Badlands

Badlands

Burning Love on the Great Plains in 1959!

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Release Date

1/5/1974

Runtime

94 mins

Overview

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$300,000

Revenue

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A lyrical fever dream that romanticizes a teenage runaway's dangerous love and descent into violence, shot through with haunting beauty and the tragedy of youth destroying itself. Hypnotic and melancholic, even as its characters commit brutal acts.

Mood

RomanticDefiantWistfulDread-soaked

Themes

LoveComing of ageFreedomIdentity

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticPainterlyHandheld

Structure

Road movie

Heads up

Graphic violence

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