Nineteen-year-old Patty is kidnapped from her apartment by the left-wing radical Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She spends six weeks in darkness, under constant death threats from her captors. The SLA extorts millions of US dollars from her family. The American public is deeply affected by young Patty's plight. But the real scandal that shakes the nation is the heiress's behavior after her kidnapping: emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged, the millionaire's daughter went so far as to conform that, after her release, she fought alongside the left-wing terrorists.

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Patty Hearst (1988)

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9/23/1988

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Nineteen-year-old Patty is kidnapped from her apartment by the left-wing radical Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She spends six weeks in darkness, under constant death threats from her captors. The SLA extorts millions of US dollars from her family. The American public is deeply affected by young Patty's plight. But the real scandal that shakes the nation is the heiress's behavior after her kidnapping: emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged, the millionaire's daughter went so far as to conform that, after her release, she fought alongside the left-wing terrorists.

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Natasha Richardson

Patricia Hearst
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William Forsythe

Teko
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Ving Rhames

Cinque
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Frances Fisher

Yolanda
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Jodi Long

Wendy Yoshimura
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Olivia Barash

Fahizah
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Dana Delany

Gelina
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Marek Johnson

Zoya
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Kitty Swink

Gabi
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Peter Kowanko

Cujo (as Pete Kowanko)
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Tom O'Rourke

Jim Browning
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Scott Kraft

Steven Weed
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Jeff Imada

Neighbor
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Ermal Williamson

Randolph A. Hearst
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Elaine Revard

Catherine Hearst
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Marc Siegler

Charles Gould
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Toni Attell

TV Announcer
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Hawthorne James

Tall Muslim
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Reggie Bruce

Short Muslim
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Stephannie Howard

Woman
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Saba Shawel

Girl #1
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Leilani Fields

Girl #2
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Mayah McCoy

Girl #3
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Carey Fox

Hippie
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Steven Avalos

Young Father
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James Lawrence Garfield

High School Student
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Christine Lunde

Newscaster (as Christine Lund)
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Jim Ward

Newscaster (as James Kevin Ward)
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Erich Anderson

1st Male
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James Bolt

2nd Male (as James Bershad)
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Bradford Bancroft

3rd Male
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Valerie Carpenter Bernstein

1st Female (as Valerie C. Robinson)
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Marta Kober

2nd Female
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Moss Porter

FBI Man #1
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Ron Boyd

FBI Man #2
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John Petievich

Policeman
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Steven Reisch

Photographer
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Jeanne McGuire

Booking Officer
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Judson Matthew Davis

Arresting Officer #1
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Michael Derek Rubin

Arresting Officer #2
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Gerald Gordon

F. Lee Bailey
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John Achorn

Al Johnson
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Jeff Allin

Assistant D.A.
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Robert Dickman

Doctor
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Jack Slater

Psychiatrist #1
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Byron Clark

Psychiatrist #2
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Nora Meerbaum

Psychiatrist #3
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Murray Leaward

Psychiatrist #4
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Steven Anderson

Psychiatrist #5
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Maurice Hill

Judge Carter
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Bill Feeney

Court Clerk
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Anne Cooper

Juror Wentz (as Ann Marie Gillis)
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Thomas Wagner

Juror Wright
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Shawn Flanagan

Bank Teller (uncredited)
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Michael Lindström

Photographer (uncredited)
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Destiny Dylan Reyes

Vicky Hearst (uncredited)
Crew
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Paul Schrader

Director
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Patricia Hearst

Writer
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Alvin Moscow

Writer
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Nicholas Kazan

Writer
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Disc Releases
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Patty Hearst

(DVD)

4/4/2011

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Patty Hearst

(Blu-ray, Keep Case (HD Slim, Low))

6/30/2020

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