Amazon.com essential video: Steven Spielberg's first feature film was, in fact, a small-scale commercial flop--but good enough to earn him a shot at making his name directing Jaws. Goldie Hawn and William Atherton play a young couple who, after some bad breaks and mistakes, have their child taken away by the state of Texas. So they take the law into their own hands and take off to retrieve him, on the run from the police--lots and lots of police--all the while turning themselves into a cause célèbre. Strong filmmaking overcomes a melodramatic script; it's fledgling Spielberg, which is better than full-blown Arthur Hiller or Joel Schumacher any day. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Surprisingly Moving
To see Goldie as not much older than a teenager is near worth the price of admission. But on top of this (and she IS cute) she puts in a GREAT performance as the lovable yet strong-willed mother of a ... Read More
Rating: - Astonishing debut film.
Keep an eye out for this director, he's sure to go on to do great things.
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Rating: - Early Spielberg...Brilliant Spielberg
Before there was a blockbuster, before there was Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition), there ws The Sugarland Express. Spielberg's ... Read More
Rating: - Oldie but a Goldie
Goldie Hawn was often so giddy and spaced out in her earliest roles that it bordered on "just too silly", but she is sweet, almost luminous in this role. It's a chase movie, but it's really not as much ... Read More
Rating: - A Good Movie!.
I first saw The Sugarland Express when I was eight years old and I liked this movie and I enjoyed the chase scenes and the acting from the entire cast was good especially Goldie Hawn and I highly recommend ... Read More
- Surprisingly Moving