Straight Time

After three 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 Bussey. E. Emmet Walsh and Kathy Bates). As Newsweek's David Ansen wrote, Straight Time "has an edgy, lingering intensity."

• UPC: 883929781089
• Release: 2021-09-21
• Content Provider: Warner
• Runtime: 114:00
• Genre: Drama, Crime
• Language: English
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• Color/BW: Color
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• Copyright: 1978 SweetWall Productions. Inc., The First Artists Production Compay Ltd. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Package Design & Supplementary Material Compilation 2021 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
• Number of Discs: 1
• Disc Format: Blu-ray