Straight Time (Limited Availability)
1978, 109 minutes, Rated M
After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it's a one-way ticket to disaster.
Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his self-destructive bent. Before and during the film's shoot, Hoffman apprenticed himself to Edward Bunker, the ex-con whose book No Beast So Fierce inspired the movie. The resulting experience is intensely real and superbly acted by Hoffman and a terrific ensemble (Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh and Kathy Bates). As Newsweek's David Ansen wrote, Straight Time "has an edgy, lingering intensity."
- Director:
- Ulu Grosbard [5],
- Starring:
- Kathy Bates [31], Harry Dean Stanton [50], Gary Busey [43], Jake Busey [22], M. Emmet Walsh [20], Theresa Russell [22], Sandy Baron [3], Rita Taggart [1], Dustin Hoffman [40],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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