Suburban Fury is a gripping portrait of Sara Jane Moore, a single mother from suburban San Francisco who, in 1975, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford.
More than a historical retelling, the film is an intimate character study – and a chilling mirror of America’s ideological divide. Framed around unprecedented access to Moore herself, it unfolds as a first-person monologue shot across the Bay Area sites where her radicalization took root. Blending rare archival footage with a stylized imagined exchange between Moore and her FBI handler, Suburban Fury traces her transformation from patriotic volunteer and government informant to disillusioned revolutionary with a gun in her hand.
Fifty years later, Moore’s story feels eerily prescient – a reflection of how ordinary citizens can be swept into extremism, conspiracy, and rage. Suburban Fury doesn’t offer easy answers; instead, it immerses us in one woman’s unraveling and the country that mirrored her fracture.
“A refraction of history through a uniquely warped prism, to nonetheless revelatory effect.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“A rapt documentary thriller… holds you with a kind of rapt tension.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“Riveting. Bursting with the energy of the archives and the thrill of a narrator who can’t quite be trusted.” – Lovia Gyarke, The Hollywood Reporter
“History is ultimately written on a level too personal for textbooks to ever understand.” – David Ehrlich, IndieWire
