Director Paul Shrader and Natasha Richardson should have been shoe-ins to win on Academy Award night with her hard-hitting performance as Patty Hearst, kidnapped and brainwashed into performing a series of bank robberies. The absurdity of the state's case against Patty is shown when a District Attorney questions her at the trial as to whether she ever remembered to send her parents a birthday card after her kidnapping. Natasha will be missed, passing away at a ripe age when an Oscar-winning part just might have come her way.
Review of Patty Hearst
