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Patty Hearst
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R,1hr 48min
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1988
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Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Neither a cold-eyed, objective survey of the evidence nor a straightforward, sob sister puff piece, this biopic uses Patty Hearst's own account of her kidnapping and stint in the Symbionese Liberation Army as a springboard for ambiguous and at times curiously inert storytelling. Continuing the stream of fact-based screenplays that would culminate in the Oscar-winning Reversal of Fortune two years later, ... Full Review
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John Waters and Patty Hearst
John Waters and Patty Hearst
John Waters, Jennifer Tilly and Patty Hearst in the Entertainment Weekly tent
John Waters and Patty Hearst
John Waters, Jennifer Tilly and Patty Hearst in the Entertainment Weekly tent
Patty Hearst and John Waters
Patty Hearst, John Waters and Dawn Hudson, IFP Los Angeles Executive Director
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