Suburban Fury

dir. Robinson Devor, 120 minutes

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 paranoid masterwork.”Richard Brody – The New Yorker