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Name: Straight Time
Released: 1978-3-18
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh

Straight Time

R
1h 54m
1978

83%

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Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman stars as a paroled convict who--confronted by a sadistic parole officer and felony record that haunts him--returns to a life of crime in this probing and edgy look into the mind of a hardened criminal.

Director:

Ulu Grosbard

Producer:

Stanley Beck, Tim Zinnemann, Howard B. Pine

Writer:

Alvin Sargent, Edward Bunker, Jeffrey Boam

Cast:

Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh, Sandy Baron, Kathy Bates

Straight Time© 1978 SweetWall Productions, Inc., The First Artists Production Company Ltd. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Package Design & Supplementary Material Compilation © 2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Distributed by Warner Home Video, 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, CA 91522. All rights reserved. Dolby and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

Reviews

Paste Magazine

Mitchell Beaupre

Hoffman’s gives a remarkably grounded portrayal which feels like a shift after a decade of excellent performances that were more in the realm of nervy, enigmatic, capital-C characters. Here he’s just this guy, an ordinary man trying to make it.

One of the most unflinching movies ever made about the criminal mindset.

...a slow-moving yet completely captivating character study...

June 17, 2021

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