Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 27, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Robert Stone |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A --
A gripping documentary that uses voluminous period evidence ... to brilliantly reconstruct the entire freak event.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
As an indicting work of journalism, it's very entertaining.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/4 --
A meticulous and often fascinating reconstruction of a chaotic time.
Seattle Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The footage is astonishing, revealing the events of 30 years ago and some scary truths about where the world is today.
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Shadows on the Wall
Rating: 4/5 --
By rejecting the view of the SLA as folk heroes, Stone presents a compelling document of a misguided political movement that epitomizes the butt end of the protest movement come the mid-1970s.
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The List
Urban terrorism inspired by Robin Hood.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
A mostly compelling and exceedingly fair-minded look back at the case.
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Detroit Free Press
Product Description:
In 1974, young Patty Hearst became a media icon after she was kidnapped from her apartment by a group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). At the time, Patty was an impressionable college student who happened to be the granddaughter of the infamous William Randolph Hearst. The SLA's demands on Hearst's family were unique; hoping to spark a class war in America, they instructed the Hearsts to make a multimillion dollar donation of food to the poor. But the story firmly imprinted itself in the history books when, two months after the initial abduction, Patty appeared to have joined forces with the SLA, and was caught on camera wielding a gun as the team robbed a bank.
This documentary on Hearst's story offers some fascinating insights on what happened to her during her time with the SLA. Some startling footage has been unearthed, and some former members of the SLA come forward to give their accounts of the story. Hearst has subsequently enjoyed a post-kidnapping career as an actress, and has appeared in a number of films by the infamous "Pope of Trash" John Waters, whose 2000 film CECIL B. DEMENTED owes a sizable debt to Hearst's kidnapping tale.
This documentary on Hearst's story offers some fascinating insights on what happened to her during her time with the SLA. Some startling footage has been unearthed, and some former members of the SLA come forward to give their accounts of the story. Hearst has subsequently enjoyed a post-kidnapping career as an actress, and has appeared in a number of films by the infamous "Pope of Trash" John Waters, whose 2000 film CECIL B. DEMENTED owes a sizable debt to Hearst's kidnapping tale.
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Product Info
- ISBN: 0767083350
- UPC: 767685973837
- Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
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