Tagline: In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people.
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Written by: Terrence Malick
Actors include: Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Warren Oates
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Length: 94 minutes
Banned: Nope
Review:
Now this was a great movie, I never realized how much Natural Born Killers had ripped off this film and cheapened it...shocking! Anyhow, this film actually feels real and surreal all at the same time, but that's a testament to the wonderful acting of Sissy Spacek as a poor lonely girl, and to Martin Sheen, the James Dean type who fell for her. At first it's innocent, however Holly's (Spacek) father finds out and things get far more dangerous. After Kit (Sheen) shoots her father, Holly decides she'd rather be with Kit than alone so the two head off on a crime spree. At first it's almost like a fantasy, they go to live in the beautiful woods and have nothing but one another to pass the time. As time goes on, they are discovered and must travel on. It's one hell of a journey, it's a romance, it's violent, it's beautiful and poetic and yet dark and disturbed. The story is actually based around a killing spree from the '50s by Charles Starkweather while his adolescent girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate followed him on his spree. She claims she came home to find her family killed by Starkweather and yet the two lived on in the murder house for seven days before going on a vicious crime spree. This is a fascinating movie, very picturesque, very action packed...I think just about anyone should find something here that they love.
Availability: On DVD
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