Steven Spielberg: EVERY Movie Ranked Worst To Best

29. The Sugarland Express (1974)

ET The Extra Terrestrial
Universal Pictures

One of Spielberg's first-ever films, before he broke the mold with Jaws the following year, The Sugarland Express is a counter-culture road movie made in the vein of Bonnie and Clyde.

Starring Goldie Hawn as a woman who breaks her husband out of prison in hopes of reuniting her broken family and starting afresh in Mexico, it's not quite as good as other films of its kind, but it is a fun and effective film all the same.

Outside of some solid action sequences, though, The Sugarland Express's main problem is Spielberg himself, whose direction isn't quite as seamless as it would become with future films, and the final act of the film, which doesn't quite live up to the rest of the picture.

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