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Straight Time (1978)
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Theresa Russell,
Kathy Bates,
Sandy Baron,
Gary Busey,
Dustin Hoffman,
Harry Dean Stanton,
M. Emmet Walsh
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| Director:
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Ulu Grosbard
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Drama
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Warner Bros.
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English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
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114 mins
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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."
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