The Sugarland Express

Movie
TitleThe Sugarland Express
User score

6.6

Release dateMar 31, 1974
GenreCrime, Drama
DirectorSteven Spielberg
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companiesUniversal Pictures, The Zanuck/Brown Company
Budget$3,000,000
Revenue$12,800,000
Run time110 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.

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