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''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' is a 1977 movie starring [[Burt Reynolds]], [[Sally Field]], [[Jackie Gleason]], and country singer Jerry Reed, who also sang the film's theme song "East Bound and Down". It is the [[Trope Codifier]] of the [[Overly Narrow Superlative|"Moonshiner on the run from Corrupt Hick cops"]] movie. The plot revolves around truck driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds), who is offered $80,000 to bootleg four hundred cases of Coors beer from [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texarkana, Texas]] to the Southern Classic truck rodeo in Georgia within 28 hours. The Bandit recruits fellow trucker Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) to make the journey with him, with the Bandit's [[Cool Car|Pontiac Firebird Trans Am]] acting as a spotter for Snowman's rig. On the journey back, the Bandit picks up a [[Runaway Bride]] named Carrie (Field), making him the target of the jilted groom's father, [[Corrupt Hick|Sheriff Buford T. Justice]] (Gleason). [[Hilarity Ensues]] and a chase across the South ensue.

 

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