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

…Terrence Malick's Badlands was, and still is, an American classic, a dark story of connection and love in a time of alienation and loss…throwaway shots of fish, trains, and household fires punctuate the narrative in a way that’s realistic and yet poetic.
Eddie Harrison
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