jsw @ richmond.infi.net wrote:
>>Joe Weinmunson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Sissy Spacek did a film in the early 1970s called _Badlands_, where she
>> plays a dim girl who can't understand why her life is so difficult.
>> Sorry, I don't have a year or a director.
>
>Ooh! Great movie! Don't know the director, either, but it was early 70s (I
>believe) and also starred Martin Sheen in one of his best performances.
 
The director of BADLANDS was Terence Malick.  But while the Sissy Spacek
character wasn't too bright, I don't think she was supposed to be mentally
disabled in any clinical way.
 
Molly Olsen
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