Project Detail

Suburban Fury

Synopsis

SUBURBAN FURY revisits the 1975 assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford through the perspective of would-be assassin Sara Jane Moore, a conservative, middle-aged mother who became radicalized while working as an FBI informant. 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 documentary features exclusive access to Moore, revealing a beguiling, and often seemingly unreliable, narrator. Her true nature, as well as the validity of political violence, are ultimately left up to the mind and heart of the viewer.
Official Selection New York Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

Details

Year
2024
Type of project
Features
Running time
120 min
Format
Film
Director
Robinson Devor
Producer
Zachariah Sebastian, Jason Reid
Co-Producer
Matt Levinthal
Executive Producer
Bob Fink, D.D. Wigley, Patrick Warburton, Su Kim, Joshua Zeman
Editor
Adam Sekuler
Screenwriter
Robinson Devor, Bob Fink, Charles Mudede, Jason Reid
Director of Photography
Sean Kirby
Production Designer
Gerald Sullivan
Composer
Paul Matthew Moore

Production Status

Production Company

UK, US co-production

Santa West Ltd (UK), Vertigo Films LLC (US)

Sales Company

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