For this film Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to shoot President Ford in Union Square, insists that she be the only one interviewed. The result is one of the most fascinating depictions of an unreliable narrator in the documentary field. 

Director Robinson Devor is expected to attend.

Raised in New York, Robinson Devor is a director, screenwriter, and editor who received his BFA in Film from SMU. His first feature The Woman Chaser (1999) was selected for the New York Film Festival and Sundance. His second narrative Police Beat (2005) was also selected for Sundance and is in the permanent collection of MoMA. He’s also directed highly acclaimed documentaries including Zoo (2007) and Pow Wow (2018). He has been working on Suburban Fury since 2010.

In order to tell her story on film Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford in Union Square in 1975, insists that she be the only one interviewed. The result is one of the most fascinating depictions of an unreliable narrator in the documentary field. Accompanied by judicious and remarkable archival footage, Moore tells her story from the back seat of a Plymouth, often reacting with barely suppressed rage at behind-the-camera questions from Devor. Moore claims she was cultivated as an FBI informant due to her involvement with the Patty Hearst kidnapping and her ability to cultivate relationships with political radicals. But without secondary sources, it’s impossible to separate fact from fiction here, and Suburban Fury encompasses not just Moore’s ultra-compelling tale and a reflection on that era’s political upheaval, but also ruminates on the very idea of documentary portraiture.
—Rod Armstrong