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Patty Hearst is a 1988 film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Natasha Richardson as Patricia Campbell Hearst and Ving Rhames as SLA leader Cinque. It is based on Hearst's autobiography Every Secret Thing (co-written with Alvin Moscow), which was later rereleased as Patty Hearst - Her Own Story.

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
. The film has a very distinctive visual style, not least because it is made almost entirely from Patty Hearst's point of view and therefore the first part is set largely in a dark cupboard with occasional blinding shafts of light when the kidnappers open the door. The ending, like those of Schrader's American Gigolo
and Light Sleeper
, echoes that of Robert Bresson's Pickpocket
, showing the central character physically imprisoned but beginning to think hopefully about a new phase in her life.

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Movies - Patty Hearst

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