Suburban Fury

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Suburban Fury

2024

1h 58m

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History

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Examining the 1975 assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore, a conservative, middle-aged, single mother from the San Francisco suburbs who became radicalized while working as an FBI informant.

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

Dec 17, 2025

4/4

It’s not often that we get an assassin or would-be assassin’s side of the story. “Suburban Fury” therefore is not just a cracking good tale, it’s a historical document as well.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Dec 2, 2025

The context is filled out with a tangy gathering of archival clips; the effect is a refraction of history through a uniquely warped prism, to nonetheless revelatory effect.

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

Oct 15, 2024

Suburban Fury does that rare thing and offers a highly specific motivation for Moore's infamous crime.

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Lauren Wissot

Hammer to Nail

Jul 15, 2026

The inventively crafted film stars the now nonagenarian, almost assassin herself, who guides us through her winding life and its intersection with American history mostly from the back seat of a nondescript car.

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Nathalie Graham

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Apr 7, 2026

Devor gains historic access to Moore, who sheds light in an unpolished, often unreliable interview on how she went from a conservative suburban housewife to an FBI informant on radical political groups to an almost assassin.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Dec 20, 2025

It’s an absorbing if slow-moving inquiry [whose] ultimate fascination lies precisely in being about someone who gets less and less cooperative with the filmmaking process.

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Madeline J

@madelinej13 Jul 3, 2026

Didn’t like the way the movie was put together made it hard to follow and boring -

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Robert F.

@RFink May 19, 2026

A remarkable and unique documentary

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Examining the 1975 assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore, a conservative, middle-aged, single mother from the San Francisco suburbs who became radicalized while working as an FBI informant.

Director: Robinson Devor
Producer: Jason Reid, Zachariah Sebastian
Screenwriter: Robinson Devor, Bob Fink, Charles Mudede
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: 2R Productions
Genre: Documentary, History
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 12, 2026
Runtime: 1h 58m

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