STEPHEN SPIELBERG'S FEATURE FILM DEBUT
50th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean (Goldie Hawn) and Clovis Poplin (William Atherton) 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.
"It is astonishing to contemplate all that director Steven Spielberg and his writers Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, all of them in their theatrical feature debuts, have managed to accomplish."
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
"Engrossing to watch, it begins to work on you, to declare its claim to greatness, after a while. You'll see."
Susan Stark
Detroit Free Press
"A truly delightful and entertaining picture."
Elston Brooks
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
STEPHEN SPIELBERG'S FEATURE FILM DEBUT
50th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean (Goldie Hawn) and Clovis Poplin (William Atherton) 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.
"It is astonishing to contemplate all that director Steven Spielberg and his writers Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, all of them in their theatrical feature debuts, have managed to accomplish."
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
"Engrossing to watch, it begins to work on you, to declare its claim to greatness, after a while. You'll see."
Susan Stark
Detroit Free Press
"A truly delightful and entertaining picture."
Elston Brooks
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com