THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS

Small-time crook Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) convinces her husband, Clovis (William Atherton), to break out of prison in order to kidnap their young son before he is placed in foster care. As they flee across Texas, they take police officer Maxwell Slide (Michael Sacks) hostage. With a massive dragnet in pursuit, headed up by Highway Patrol Chief Tanner (Ben Johnson), the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.