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The Sugarland Express
The film is based on a true story. It is about a strong woman who tries her best to save her family, her happiness. She accepts all dangerous challenges to help her husband escape prison, kidnaps a state trooper which leads to terrible circumstances.
23 September 1922, Hamilton, Texas, USA
3 September 1918, Waco, Texas, USA
9 December 1891, Texas, USA
9 April 1921, Floresville, Texas, USA
11 September 1948, New York, USA
15 January 1932, Breckenridge, Texas, USA
13 January 1928, Wendell, North Carolina, USA
13 June 1918, Foraker, Shidler, Oklahoma, USA
14 March 1946, Burbank, California, USA
June 24, 2016
The set pieces are beautifully handled, grizzled veteran Ben Johnson is watchable as the head cop on their tail, and, looking back, it's clear that Spielberg already held all the aces and knew how to deal them.
September 06, 2010
The Sugarland Express is not terribly original - Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands and The Getaway are indelibly marked in its DNA - but shows an already dazzling young filmmaker honing his skills and vision.
February 09, 2006
A beautifully put together, assured film.
June 12, 2009
Modest but assured work.
May 21, 2003
The movie has a casual craziness that seems especially native.
February 20, 2009
Unfortunately, the film degenerates in final reels to heavy-handed social polemic and sound-and-fury shootout.
June 24, 2016
With this role, Hawn further proves she was an actress of some talent and not just an attractive woman to be taken lightly.
October 23, 2004
If the movie finally doesn't succeed, that's because Spielberg has paid too much attention to all those police cars (and all the crashes they get into), and not enough to the personalities of his characters.
June 16, 2015
A tragi-comedy in which our modern beasts of burden ultimately exact revenge with horrific panache.
December 01, 2006
Reflecting the zeitgeist of mid-1970s America, this early Spieleberg picture is still one of his strongest, dealing with alienation, anarchy, and lack of control; Goldie Hawn gives an uncharacteristicaly forceful dramatic performance.
June 24, 2016
The pace falters near the end, but overall this is a brilliantly calculated audience pleaser.
September 25, 2009
Steven Spielberg in Malickland, with dolly and zoom and a wagonload of familial issues
