{"id":278590,"date":"2025-11-08T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278590\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:27:10","slug":"doc-about-would-be-presidential-assassin-sara-jane-moore-to-get-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278590\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc About Would-Be Presidential Assassin Sara Jane Moore To Get Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Argot Pictures<\/a> will distribute Robinson Devor<\/a>\u2019s award-winning documentary Suburban Fury<\/a>, qualifying the film for Oscar consideration ahead of a national rollout.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe distribution plan will have the documentary play at Alamo Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan from December 12-18, before a 2026 theatrical release across the country and at museums. The film, which won the top documentary prize at the Seattle International Film Festival, takes a fascinating look at Sara Jane Moore<\/a>, the suburban housewife who bizarrely tried to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco in September 1975. She managed to squeeze off a shot from a .38 caliber revolver that missed Ford; she raised her arm to fire again but ax ex-Marine in the crowd, Oliver Sipple, managed to subdue her.<\/p>\n

\n\tSuburban Fury examines how Moore became radicalized, a strange tale involving Patty Hearst, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Secret Service and the FBI.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tSara Jane Moore in \u2018Suburban Fury\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArgot Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMore than a historical retelling, the film is an intimate character study \u2014 and a chilling mirror of America\u2019s ideological divide,\u201d notes a release. \u201cFramed around unprecedented access to Moore herself, it unfolds as a first-person monologue shot across the Bay Area sites where her radicalization took root. Blending rare archival footage with a stylized imagined exchange between Moore and her FBI handler, Suburban Fury traces her transformation from patriotic volunteer and government informant to disillusioned revolutionary with a gun in her hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe release continues, \u201cFifty years later, Moore\u2019s story feels eerily prescient \u2014 a reflection of how ordinary citizens can be swept into extremism, conspiracy, and rage. Suburban Fury doesn\u2019t offer easy answers; instead, it immerses us in one woman\u2019s unraveling and the country that mirrored her fracture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tArgot Pictures, founded by Jim Browne in 2005, has distributed dozens of films, including Marshall Curry\u2019s Academy Award-nominated Street Fight (about a young Cory Booker\u2019s attempt to win election as mayor of Newark, NJ), John Pirozzi\u2019s Don\u2019t Think I\u2019ve Forgotten: Cambodia\u2019s Lost Rock and Roll; Throw Down Your Heart, a documentary about legendary banjo player B\u00e9la Fleck; Stacy Peralta\u2019s Crips and Bloods: Made in America, and Leah Warshawski & Todd Soliday\u2019s Big Sonia.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been a great admirer of Robinson Devor\u2019s work for a long time now,\u201d Browne said in a statement, \u201cand excited to work with him and the team on his extraordinary film, Suburban Fury.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoore speaks for herself in the film \u2013 sometimes in combative exchanges with the director.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe yelled at me more than once off camera and on,\u201d Devor told Deadline in an interview for our Doc Talk podcast<\/a>. \u201cBut you\u2019ve got to go through that a little bit if you want to get an interview like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Suburban<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArgot Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tMany people who dealt with Moore back in the 1970s underestimated her \u2013 for instance, law enforcement interviewed her before the assassination attempt and concluded she posed no serious threat. Devor spoke with Moore for the film when she was 94, several years after she had completed a prison term of 32 years.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe is a very vibrant, smart person, and I think that she\u2019s a natural storyteller and a raconteur,\u201d Devor told us. \u201cShe loves telling a good story, and she was trained, I guess a little while as an actress. So, she\u2019s able to perform very well\u2026 I think she really understands how to control a conversation. I really think she has spent time with politicians understanding that you can give an answer and you can be telling the truth, but if you\u2019re a few millimeters off the question, you\u2019re not lying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoore died on Sept. 24 at the age of 95, just days shy of the 50th anniversary of her assassination attempt. The documentary sets the scene for that earlier era \u2014 a strange time in American and world history, when settled order seemed vulnerable to violent, concussive change.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDirector Robinson Devor attends the \u2018Suburban Fury\u2019 press conference during the 62nd New York Film Festival on October 8, 2024.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDominik Bindl\/Getty Images for FLC<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you\u2019re watching on the television and you\u2019re seeing the individual hijacking jumbo jets, the individuals taking over an Olympic Games, or a few individuals that have this crazy audacity that they can actually get away with \u2014 because you really couldn\u2019t quite get away with stuff like that today,\u201d Devor observed. \u201cIt just seemed like [the times were] saying to people that, \u2018Hey, if you\u2019ve got a crazy way to upend the system, go for it.\u2019 There was just so many people doing crazy things in that time period -bombings hijackings.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSuburban Fury screens at DOC NYC on Tuesday, Nov. 18. It premiered last year at the New York Film Festival before going on to screen at SFFILM\u2019s Doc Stories in San Francisco, as well as top festivals in Philadelphia, Seattle, Sonoma, CA, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Argot Pictures will distribute Robinson Devor\u2019s award-winning documentary Suburban Fury, qualifying the film for Oscar consideration ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[147664,115082,88,206,147665,147666,147667],"class_list":{"0":"post-278590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-argot-pictures","9":"tag-awardsdoc","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-robinson-devor","13":"tag-sara-jane-moore","14":"tag-suburban-fury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}