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Actors: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Sugarland Express |
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THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS is a film cowritten and directed by Steven Spielberg in 1974.
Lou Jean Poplin helps her husband Clovis to escape from jail. Lou Jean's child has been placed with foster parents because of Lou and Clovis's former incarceration. Lou Jean wants to drive to Sugarland and reclaim their son. The couple kidnaps the patrolman Maxwell Slide and heads to Sugarland. Soon a long queue of police cars are closely following the kidnappers. The captain Harlin Tanner tries to negotiate with Lou Jean and Clovis but, they don't want to give up their idea of recovering their son.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Sugarland Express |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal kidnappers
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Texas
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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