Straight Time (1978) Rating: Starring: Theresa Russell, Kathy Bates, Sandy Baron, Gary Busey, Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh Director: Ulu Grosbard Category: Drama Studio: Warner Bros. Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese Length: 114 mins     Please God, don't let him get caught. 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."