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.
Genres: Comedy , Crime , Drama
Keywords: adoption , baby-snatching , based-on-true-story , convicted-felon , fugitive-lovers , hostage , kidnapping , on-the-run , police , prison , road-trip , runaway-couple , stadium , texas , texas-ranger , vulgarity