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Sugarland Express, The

Those who were surprised by the lightness of Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can must have forgotten this, his first feature. It’s a serious story – an ex-con busts her husband out of jail to reclaim their baby from the foster system – yet it has a looseness and wit Spielberg rarely shows. That’s largely because he hands the film over to a vibrant Goldie Hawn, whose single-minded mother is at turns dippy and diabolical. Half of the fun comes from watching Spielberg’s lively camera try to keep up with her.

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