The Sugarland Express with Esther Zuckerman

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

Young whippersnapper Steven Spielberg continues his run of dusty, road-centric films with 1974’s THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, and we’re along for the (surprisingly chill) ride. Writer Esther Zuckerman joins us to discuss the cinematic persona of Goldie Hawn, William Atherton’s strange period of leading-man roles, the harmonica stylings of Belgian jazz legend Toots Thielemans, and Spielberg’s brief but fruitful collaboration with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. Note - we recorded this episode a few months in advance. We no longer endorse the whole Hawk Tuah thing. Buy Esther's Book The Box Office Game is Sponsored by Regal Cinemas: Sign up for Regal Unlimited today and get 10% off your 3 month subscription when using code BLANKCHECK Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The blank check with Griffin and David.
0:05.7	Blackjack with Griffin and David.
0:09.3	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.9	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Black Check.
0:23.4	The true story of a podcast Who took on all of Texas
0:25.1	And almost one
0:26.1	Oh
0:27.2	Okay, so I found three different posters
0:28.8	For this movie.
0:29.5	All of them have very weird taglines.
0:31.5	Because this was a movie
0:32.6	No One Knew How to Sell.
0:33.6	You can tell by when you look
0:34.9	at the three posters
0:35.7	where you're like,
0:36.2	Ah, it's just three attempts at getting it across.
0:39.5	I want to take the, let me recite
0:41.3	the three at-bats. The one unifying
0:43.3	element is all of them were like, Goldie Hahn
0:45.4	picture? Big face, big, big
0:47.3	Goldie, please. We have one undeniable movie
0:49.2	star. A Academy Award
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