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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65/100 Steven Spielberg's second movie, and while not very good, it's still pretty alright in its own right. This is a movie with a premise I'd me more inclined to dislike if it wasn't based on a real event, with a good message as to people's reaction to an event and how public relations is placed above any actual solution. The movie is of course, helped by Spielberg's strong direction, but the actors here also do a good job on their own. Of course, the married pair's plan is hopeless, but you can see how the husband, played by William Atherton, is almost scared of his wife, played by Goldie Hawn, and wants to keep her quiet. Hawn herself perfectly plays the wife. While I'm not a fan of how vapidly she's portrayed, it's played so sincerely and over the course of the film you realize how unhinged she is. It's played very well, and developed over the course of the film. If I have one…