Sugarland Express by Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Steven Spielberg, directed by the latter is one of The New York times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although I personally see at least ten other Spielberg works that would be better than this one, what am I saying there may be even thirty, nevertheless, this is not making it on my top 1,000 Favorites list…still, you find thousands of notes on motion pictures from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the macaws are the main (only) attraction

 

Sugarland Express by Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Steven Spielberg, directed by the latter is one of The New York times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although I personally see at least ten other Spielberg works that would be better than this one, what am I saying there may be even thirty, nevertheless, this is not making it on my top 1,000 Favorites list…still, you find thousands of notes on motion pictures from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the macaws are the main (only) attraction

 

6 out of 10

 

Steven Spielberg has created more than twenty magnificent films https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-post-director-steven-spielberg.html if we count them, there may be more than thirty, some of them less well known, as The Post, but outstanding notwithstanding

 

Alas, Sugarland Express does not seem to be on the same magnitude, I was going to say I wonder why it is part of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made selection – it is number 802 now, this is the number I have completed there, you could take the challenge too, and see how many you have seen – but no…

There are merits, and that is clear: first the story, it is real and that gives it some oomph – let me mention William Goldman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html and his master work Adventures in the Screen Trade, where he writes about screenplays, real stories

 

William Goldman mentions this tale: a rich woman lives in a castle, with guards, but this nobody jumps a fence, walks some corridors and finds himself in the bedroom of this majestic character, if it is in a movie, the audience walks out, but it was real, and it happened to Queen Elizabeth, they included it in The Crown

Goldie Hawn is Lou Jean in Sugarland Express, a genuine, charming thespian, I will always remember her in The Cactus Flower, acting versus a Magister Ludi of the Glasperlenspiel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-glass-beads-game-by-herman-hesse.html Walter Matthau

 

Lou Jean arrives at this penitentiary in the opening scenes, to visit Clovis: they have a child together, but the baby was taken by the Child Protection Agency, or some such outfit, ergo the mother is furious and she has a plan: she will take her partner – I am not sure they were married, if they were, I forgot – out of prison

He only has a few months left, but the infant needs affection from his mother, so they have to get down to Sugarland and get him https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/from-magnum-opus-shortlisted-for.html except this will start a chain of awful, tragic events, many, or most of them also jocular, if quite dark

 

They try to get a ride, but the old couple with the car gets stopped by the police, they steal their vehicle, crash it, then they take the officer hostage and then would be followed by about one hundred police cars, it is a story that we have seen in various guises, only this one was a pioneer, it was released some 52 years ago…

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