The Sugarland Express

In a desperate attempt to keep her baby from being taken away by state authorities, a young wife helps her husband escape from jail. This drama follows the couple as they take a police officer hostage and set off across the country, pursued by the police the entire way., Steven Spielberg’s first feature, about a couple who try to reclaim their child from foster parents and wind up being fugitives., Based on a true story, Lou Jean Poplin helps her husband Clovis escape from prison. She needs him to join her in the fight against forces who want to put her child up for adoption, so the three of them take to the road in one long chase across America’s highways., With their child in foster care, a young couple fight the law with style: busting jail, kidnapping a policeman and heading for a new life in his hijacked car. This high-spirited road comedy was Steven Spielberg’s first big screen effort and his first collaboration with composer John Williams., Steven Spielberg’s first theatrical feature is a fact-based tale about a Texas couple, both with felonious histories, who try to reclaim their child from foster parents and wind up being chased across the state by police., Steven Spielberg’s first theatrical feature, based on a true story, stars William Atherton and Goldie Hawn as a convict sprung from prison by his wife to stop the authorities taking over the care of their baby. Kidnapping the child along with hostage police officer Slide, they set off for freedom across the plains of Sugarland, Texas, with the law in close pursuit. The film was coolly received on release but has now become a cult classic., Gripping drama about a young mother and her husband – a wanted man – who go on the run in a bid to keep their child from being adopted by the authorities. After he manages, with her help, to break out of jail, they embark on a madcap chase across Texas, pursued by the police and the media. Based on a true story, this was Steven Spielberg’s feature film debut.