SUBURBAN FURY | A FILM BY ROBINSON DEVOR | 118 min. | USA | 2024
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Suburban Fury revisits the story of Sara Jane Moore, a conservative mother from the San Francisco suburbs who, in 1975, attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford.
Sara Jane’s interviews were shot on location in a station wagon on streets she once drove through, and in the hotel ballroom where she was interrogated after the assassination attempt. Her voice, at turns poetic and raw, narrates the story against a backdrop of haunting archival footage from the 1970s, blurring memory and history.
Freed after serving 32 years of a life sentence, Moore returns to San Francisco under watch of the Secret Service to tell the extraordinary story of her transformation from suburban housewife to government infiltrator to far-left extremist. Interweaving rarely seen archival footage with an imaginatively staged dialogue between Sara Jane Moore, the informant, and Bert Worthington, her FBI control agent, the film features exclusive access to Moore, revealing a beguiling, and often seemingly unreliable, narrator. Moore’s true nature, as well as the validity of political violence, are ultimately left up to the mind and heart of the viewer.
A captivating documentary thriller. An incredibly cinematic and high-energy viewing experience.”
A rapt documentary thriller.”
Riveting. Bursting with energy of the archives and the thrill of a narrator who can’t quite be trusted.”
'Suburban Fury' does that rare thing and offers a highly specific motivation for Moore’s infamous crime… Holds you with a kind of rapt tension.”
Nothing short of riveting, excavating a strange, compelling story from the footnotes of history…."
