Patty Hearst (1988)
Directed by Paul Schrader
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life. She eventually joined their cause, sparking controversy.
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Her grandfather, the Broadway and Hollywood legend Elia Kazan, directed A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront; her parents are screenwriters Robin Swicord (Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Nicholas Kazan (Frances, Patty Hearst, Reversal of Fortune, Matilda).
The ideal to aspire to here is Paul Schrader’s Patty Hearst, where, for a large chunk of the movie, we are as much in the dark as the title character.
“Argo” offers another entry in the cinematic history of that crazy alternate political reality known as the 1970s, along with Olivier Assayas’s tremendous terrorist soap opera “Carlos,” Uli Edel’s Oscar-nominated “Baader Meinhof Complex” and Paul Schrader’s severely underrated “Patty Hearst.”