The Sugarland Express
MovieTitle | The Sugarland Express |
User score | 6.6 |
Release date | Mar 31, 1974 |
Genre | Crime, Drama |
Director | Steven Spielberg |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Universal Pictures, The Zanuck/Brown Company |
Budget | $3,000,000 |
Revenue | $12,800,000 |
Run time | 110 min. |
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin 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.