Suburban Fury
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"Suburban Fury" examines 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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"Suburban Fury" presents the bizarre true story of Sara Jane Moore's 1975 assassination attempt on Gerald Ford through an unreliable narrator structure that's both fascinating and frustrating. Critics praise the incredible archival footage and Moore's unprecedented access as the sole interviewee, but consistently note the film's bloated runtime and lack of directorial perspective, leaving audiences with more questions than answers about this "paranoiac Forrest Gump" of American political history.
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- Oct 9, 2024
It’s one of the wilder footnotes in modern American history: At 3:30pm on the afternoon of September 22, 1975, a conservative 46-year-old single mom named Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate the President of the United States on the street outside of San Francisco’s…
davidehrlichOct 8, 2024great acquisition of archival footage; stressful movie... incredible subject. filmmakers frustratingly seem to lack POV completely — letting the (again: great) footage do the talking for them. hard to know where to land the plane for anyone involved, myself included having…
fran hoepfnerOct 9, 2024NYFF62 Film #26 I think the reason that would-be Presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore isn't better known or considered to be a more pivotal figure in 1970's politics, is because she doesn't have that extra juice that makes her story sensationalized. She wasn't in the…
Johnny Pomatto - Oct 9, 2024
The hallmark of a great documentary is either an incredible story or a fascinating, complex character — Suburban Fury has a bit of both. It tells the story of Sarah Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford in 1975. It’s a lesser-known story in American history,…
BenDec 19, 2025"There comes a time, that the only way to make a statement, is to pick up a gun" Sara Jane Moore
cineurbeMay 23, 2025god forbid a woman has a hobby (sex and conspiracy)
kstroom - May 21, 2025
She took one look at the guy behind her and immediately clocked the gay
Aurora San MiguelOct 10, 2024NYFF62 Film #21 aka Don DeLillo's Forrest Gump: The Documentary Half expected it to be revealed partway through that Sara Jane Moore had had an affair with Lee Harvey Oswald at some point
MrMustacheMay 21, 2025Suburban Fury is my favorite movie I’ve watched so far at SIFF ‘25. It was a fascinating documentary, an intriguing look at history as experienced by one person; a story of how we tell our stories, of self mythologizing, or the subjective nature of history. On one side we…
Jason
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Metacritic
Dec 16, 2025
A must-see documentary about not just a would-be assassin and moment in American history, but a snapshot of the Bay Area during turbulent times.
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
Nov 5, 2024
What this story reminds us isn’t that a woman named Sara Jane Moore was radicalized into action, but that history — for all of the larger than life sweep that word implies — is ultimately written on a level too personal for textbooks to ever understand.
David Ehrlich
IndieWire
Nov 1, 2024
Suburban Fury is a reminder that even the most candid historical figures are never fully transparent.
Jake Kring-Schreifels
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