- Patty Hearst (film)
Infobox Film
name = Patty Hearst
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caption = Film poster
director =Paul Schrader
producer =Marvin Worth
writer =Patricia Hearst ,Alvin Moscow ,Nicholas Kazan
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starring =Natasha Richardson ,William Forsythe ,Ving Rhames ,Frances Fisher ,Jodi Long ,Olivia Barash ,Dana Delany
music = Scott Johnson
cinematography =Bojan Bazelli
editing =Michael R. Miller
distributor =
released = September 23, 1988
runtime = 108 min
country =United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0095836"Patty Hearst" is a
1988 biographical film directed byPaul Schrader and starringNatasha Richardson as Patricia Campbell Hearst andVing Rhames as SLA leader Cinque. It is based on Hearst's1982 autobiography "Every Secret Thing " (co-written withAlvin Moscow ), which was later rereleased as "Patty Hearst - Her Own Story".Production
Schrader has said that he made "Patty Hearst" on a low budget and for a small salary to recover from the commercial and artistic failure of "
Light of Day ". The film has a very distinctive visual style, not least because it is made almost entirely from Patty Hearst's point of view and therefore the first part is set largely in a dark closet with occasional blinding shafts of light when the kidnappers open the door.The ending, like those of Schrader's "
American Gigolo " and "Light Sleeper ", echoes that ofRobert Bresson 's "Pickpocket", showing the central character physically imprisoned but beginning to think hopefully about a new phase in her life.External links
*imdb title|id=0095836|title=Patty Hearst
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