Patty Hearst (film)

Patty Hearst is a 1988 biographical film directed by Paul Schrader and stars Natasha Richardson as Hearst Corporation heiress Patricia Hearst and Ving Rhames as Symbionese Liberation Army leader Cinque. It is based on Hearsts 1982 autobiography Every Secret Thing cowritten with Alvin Moscow, which was later rereleased as Patty Hearst Her Own Story.

Patty Hearst premiered at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival on Mayin the feature film competition. The film opened on September 23, 1988 in the US and grossed 601,680 in its opening weekend. It made a total domestic gross of 1,223,326.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.citation needed The film has a very distinctive visual style, not least because it is made almost entirely from Patty Hearsts point of view and therefore the first part is set largely in a dark closet with occasional blinding shafts of light when the captors open the door. ........

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