Patty Hearst (1988) ( Patty )

Patty Hearst (1988) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Patty
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Paul Schrader

Written By:
Paul Schrader
Patricia Hearst
Alvin Moscow

Actors:
Natasha Richardson ..... Patricia Hearst
William Forsythe ..... Toko
Ving Rhames ..... Cinque
Frances Fisher ..... Yolanda
Jodi Long ..... Wendy Yoshimura
Olivia Barash ..... Fahizah
Dana Delany ..... Gelina
Marek Johnson ..... Zoya
Kitty Swink ..... Gobi
Peter Kowanko ..... Cujo
Tom O'Rourke ..... Jim Browning
Scott Kraft ..... Steven Weed
Jeff Imada ..... Neighbor
Elaine Revard ..... Catherine Hearst
Ermal Williamson ..... Randolph A. Hearst

Synopsis:

Patty Hearst is a 1988 biographical film directed by Paul Schrader and stars Natasha Richardson as Hearst Corporation heiress Patricia Hearst and Ving Rhames as Symbionese Liberation Army leader Cinque. It is based on Hearst's 1982 autobiography Every Secret Thing (co-written with Alvin Moscow), which was later rereleased as Patty Hearst - Her Own Story. The film depicts the kidnapping of student Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her transformation into an active follower of the SLA after a long-lasting imprisonment and process of brainwashing, and her final arrest after a series of armed robberies.

A newspaper heiress is kidnapped, brainwashed, and forced to join a group of terrorist bank robbers in this docudrama, based on the saga of Patricia Hearst. In 1974, Hearst (Natasha Richardson), the granddaughter of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst, was a student at the University of California. On February 4, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical political group, broke into the Berkeley home she shared with her boyfriend and kidnapped her. Hearst then allegedly spent 57 days locked in a closet as she was indoctrinated into the group's revolutionary beliefs by their charismatic leader, Cinque (Ving Rhames). Eventually, Hearst joined (or at least pretended to join) the SLA, adopted the name Tania and participated in a number of high-profile bank robberies. After several SLA members died in a police fire storm, Hearst and fellow members Bill and Emily Harris (William Forsythe and Frances Fisher) went on the lam and were later arrested. Although she claimed her participation in the group was a ruse carried out to protect herself from further rape, torture, and mind control, Hearst eventually served several years in prison after her 1976 conviction for bank robbery. Based on the novel Every Secret Thing, Hearst's own account of the events, Paul Schrader's film tells the story from the heiress' own viewpoint, with little in the way of conflicting evidence. After President Carter ordered her release from prison in 1979, Hearst went on to act in several films, including Cecil B. Demented, a John Waters spoof whose plot bears some resemblance to her own life story.

The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 October, 2014.