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5.9/10   496 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Patricia Hearst (book) and
Alvin Moscow (book) ...
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Release Date:
23 September 1988 (USA) more
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Heiress... kidnap victim... turned urban terrorist... bank robber
Plot:
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent... more | add synopsis
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2 nominations more
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(21 articles)
Natasha Richardson's Organs Donated After Her Death
 (From PEOPLE.com. 24 March 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)

Natasha Richardson: 'She Was So Much Fun'
 (From PEOPLE.com. 24 March 2009, 9:00 AM, PDT)

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Decent early Ving Rhames; film only of interest to certain audience more (13 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Natasha Richardson ... Patricia Hearst

William Forsythe ... Teko

Ving Rhames ... Cinque

Frances Fisher ... Yolanda

Jodi Long ... Wendy Yoshimura
Olivia Barash ... Fahizah

Dana Delany ... Gelina
Marek Johnson ... Zoya
Kitty Swink ... Gabi
Peter Kowanko ... Cujo (as Pete Kowanko)

Tom O'Rourke ... Jim Browning

Scott Kraft ... Steven Weed
Jeff Imada ... Neighbor
Ermal Williamson ... Randolph A. Hearst
Elaine Revard ... Catherine Hearst
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Patty
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108 min
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Fun Stuff

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Anachronisms: After the shooting at the sporting goods store, Patty says it was "just like Starsky and Hutch". "Starsky and Hutch" (1975) debuted in 1975, a year later than the events in that scene. more
Quotes:
Teko: [after a mock gunfight] You're dead.
Patricia Hearst: [whining] I'm always dead!
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References Plane Crazy (1928) more
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Way Back Home more

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Decent early Ving Rhames; film only of interest to certain audience, 3 August 2002
6/10
Author: smatysia (feldene@comcast.net) from Houston

Natasha Richardson, as Patty Hearst, does a decent job with the role. I suppose she is speaking so slowly all the time to keep her British accent under control, but it makes her sound stoned. (Richardson did an excellent job with an American (Southern) accent a few years later in "Nell". Ving Rhames did a bang-up (ha-ha) job as the SLA terrorist, and you really have to hand it to him for being able to spout off all that Marxist, revolutionary drivel and still keep a straight face. That rhetoric sounds so ludicrous in 2002, and frankly it was pretty absurd by 1974. This is really only worth catching on TV if you're interested in the subject matter, not worth a rental. Grade: C-

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