WATCH PARTY: The Sugarland Express (1974) Steven Spielberg @ Jordan Newby Lib
Details
We will be in the Cloud Room on the 2nd floor. (h/t cinephile Ren)
RUNTIME: 110 minutes
SYNOPSIS: Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean (Goldie Hawn) and Clovis Poplin (William Atherton) lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
BLURBS:
"It is astonishing to contemplate all that director Steven Spielberg and his writers Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, all of them in their theatrical feature debuts, have managed to accomplish." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"Spielberg's eye for detail is stated visually rather than through dialogue and the film offers many accurate vignettes of America's obsession with "heroes" and heroism." - Cynthia Kirk, The Hollywood Reporter
"With this first theatrical feature, Steven Spielberg proved he had the right stuff to become America's purest and most accomplished film entertainer." - Marjorie Baumgartern, Austin Chronicle