Directed by Paul Schrader
The strange, true saga of kidnapped heiress-turned-urban-guerilla fighter, Patty Hearst, seems ready made for director Paul Schrader, given his recurring fascination with the instability of identity and impassive characters pushed to their breaking points. Schrader devises a series of ingenious aesthetic solutions to the problem of telling a story in which the main character remains a polarizing enigma, even to herself.
Atlantic Releasing Corporation. Producer: Thomas Coleman, Michael Rosenblatt, Marvin Worth, Linda Reisman. Based on the book “Every Secret Thing” by Patricia Campbell Hearst. Screenwriter: Nicholas Kazan. Cinematographer: Bojan Bazelli. Editor: Michael R. Miller. Cast: Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long.
35m, color, 108 min.
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