Straight Time

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Straight Time

Straight Time VHS cover.jpg
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
IMDb profile

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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