**EXCLUSIVE: Argot Pictures to Distribute Robinson Devor’s Award-Winning Documentary *Suburban Fury***
Argot Pictures has announced it will distribute Robinson Devor’s critically acclaimed documentary *Suburban Fury*, setting the stage for Oscar qualification ahead of a planned national rollout. The distribution strategy includes a limited theatrical engagement at Alamo Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan from December 12–18, followed by a wider 2026 theatrical release across the United States, with screenings also planned at museums nationwide.
*Suburban Fury*, which won the top documentary prize at the Seattle International Film Festival, delves into the intriguing story of Sara Jane Moore—the suburban housewife who notoriously attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in San Francisco in September 1975. Armed with a .38 caliber revolver, Moore fired a shot that missed the president. As she prepared to fire again, Oliver Sipple, an ex-Marine in the crowd, intervened and subdued her.
The documentary investigates how Moore became radicalized, weaving together a complex narrative that involves Patty Hearst, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Secret Service, and the FBI. According to the official release, *Suburban Fury* is “more than a historical retelling; the film is an intimate character study and a chilling mirror of America’s ideological divide.”
The film is uniquely framed around unprecedented access to Moore herself, unfolding as a first-person monologue filmed across key Bay Area locations where her radicalization took root. By blending rare archival footage with a stylized imagined exchange between Moore and her FBI handler, the film traces her transformation from a patriotic volunteer and government informant to a disillusioned revolutionary with a gun in hand.
Fifty years later, Moore’s story resonates with renewed urgency. The release notes, “*Suburban Fury* feels eerily prescient—a reflection of how ordinary citizens can be swept into extremism, conspiracy, and rage. The documentary doesn’t offer easy answers; instead, it immerses us in one woman’s unraveling and the country that mirrored her fracture.”
Founded in 2005 by Jim Browne, Argot Pictures has a rich history of distributing impactful documentaries. Their roster includes Marshall Curry’s Academy Award-nominated *Street Fight*, chronicling Cory Booker’s Newark mayoral campaign; John Pirozzi’s *Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll*; *Throw Down Your Heart*, a documentary about banjo legend Béla Fleck; Stacy Peralta’s *Crips and Bloods: Made in America*; and Leah Warshawski & Todd Soliday’s *Big Sonia*.
Jim Browne expressed enthusiasm for the collaboration, stating, “I’ve been a great admirer of Robinson Devor’s work for a long time now, and I’m excited to work with him and the team on his extraordinary film, *Suburban Fury*.”
Devor shared candid insights about working with Moore, who appears in the film engaging in sometimes combative exchanges with the director. “She yelled at me more than once off camera and on,” Devor revealed during an interview on Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast. “But you’ve got to go through that a little bit if you want to get an interview like that.”
Many who encountered Moore in the 1970s underestimated her threat. For example, law enforcement officials interviewed her before the assassination attempt and concluded she was not a serious danger.
Devor conducted his interviews with Moore when she was 94, several years after completing a 32-year prison sentence. “She is a very vibrant, smart person, and I think she’s a natural storyteller and raconteur,” Devor said. “She loves telling a good story and was trained somewhat as an actress, so she’s able to perform very well. I think she really understands how to control a conversation—she’s spent time with politicians and knows you can give an answer and be telling the truth, but if you’re a few millimeters off the question, you’re not lying.”
Moore passed away on September 24 at the age of 95, just days shy of the 50th anniversary of her assassination attempt.
The documentary also sets the scene for the tumultuous era in which these events occurred—a strange time in American and world history when the established order felt vulnerable to violent, seismic change. Devor observed, “When you were watching television and seeing individual hijackings of jumbo jets, the takeover of the Olympic Games, or people with the audacity to think they could get away with such crazy acts—it just seemed like the times were telling people, ‘Hey, if you’ve got a crazy way to upend the system, go for it.’ There were so many examples of bombings and hijackings.”
*Suburban Fury* will screen at DOC NYC on Tuesday, November 18. The film premiered last year at the New York Film Festival and has since been featured at SFFILM’s Doc Stories in San Francisco, as well as major festivals in Philadelphia, Seattle, Sonoma (California), Minneapolis-St. Paul, and the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas.
https://deadline.com/2025/11/suburban-fury-argot-pictures-distribution-1236611558/