Straight Time
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| Straight Time | |
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| Directed by | Ulu Grosbard |
| Produced by | Stanley Beck Dustin Hoffman Tim Zinnemann |
| Starring | Dustin Hoffman Theresa Russell |
| Music by | David Shire |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | March 18, 1978 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 114 min. |
| Language | English |
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Straight Time: 1978 When his efforts at rehabilitation are futile, a paroled Los Angeles ex-con named Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) based on the real-life character James Durbin, becomes destined to repeat his criminal past, bedeviled by Earl Frank, his self-serving and venal parole officer played by M. Emmet Walsh. Co-starring Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Kathy Bates and Harry Dean Stanton. Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, Alvin Sargent and Edward Bunker, from Bunker's novel No Beast So Fierce. Directed by Ulu Grosbard. Rated (R).
Michael Mann also contributed to the screenplay but was uncredited upon the film's release. The novel No Beast So Fierce later served as a source of reference for the character Neil McCauley in Mann's 1995 film Heat.
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