Suburban Fury

A riveting 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 account, it’s an intimate character study and a chilling reflection on America’s ideological fracture. Structured around exclusive access to Moore, the film unfolds as a first-person monologue filmed in the Bay Area locations where her radicalization occurred, interwoven with rare archival footage and a stylized imagined dialogue with her FBI handler. Her story — from patriotic do-gooder and FBI informant to disillusioned radical with a loaded gun — foreshadows today’s political whiplash: centrists drifting to extremes, conspiracy theories, and domestic extremism born in ordinary homes.

At the 50th anniversary of her attempt, SUBURBAN FURY resonates urgently in an era of democratic backsliding, offering no easy answers — only a singular vantage point inside a fractured mind and country.