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Straight Time
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$9.97
- First Released
- 6/06/07
- Genres
- Drama, Crime/Mystery
- DVD
- 4 (will only play on Region 4 and Multi-Region DVD players)
- Media Format
- PAL - View more information
Description
"Please God, don't let him get caught."
Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand the calculated cruelties of slimy parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh). The more Max tries to go straight, the more he is defeated by circumstance or hectored by the sadistic Frank. It becomes clear after a while that neither Hoffman nor his fellow ex-cons will be able to survive looking for legitimate work. Max is too "far gone" as a human being to succeed at anything other than crime. He goes back to his old thieving ways, inveigling reformed crook Jerry Schue (Harry Dean Stanton) into helping him. A climactic "big caper" goes tragically awry, thanks in great part to the tragic flaws in Max's personality.
Based on a novel by Edward Bunker, Straight Time is possibly the most realistic cinematic probe into the sociopathic psyche of the career criminal.
Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand the calculated cruelties of slimy parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh). The more Max tries to go straight, the more he is defeated by circumstance or hectored by the sadistic Frank. It becomes clear after a while that neither Hoffman nor his fellow ex-cons will be able to survive looking for legitimate work. Max is too "far gone" as a human being to succeed at anything other than crime. He goes back to his old thieving ways, inveigling reformed crook Jerry Schue (Harry Dean Stanton) into helping him. A climactic "big caper" goes tragically awry, thanks in great part to the tragic flaws in Max's personality.
Based on a novel by Edward Bunker, Straight Time is possibly the most realistic cinematic probe into the sociopathic psyche of the career criminal.
Special Features
- Commentary by Dustin Hoffman and Director Ulu Grosbard
- Vintage Featurette 'Straight Time: He Wrote It For Criminals'
- Actors
- Director
- Ulu Grosbard
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
- Rating
- M
- Year of Production
- 1978
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Run Time (minutes)
- 109
- Language
- English
- German
- Spanish
- Subtitle Language
- English,
- Danish,
- Finnish,
- German,
- Norwegian,
- Polish,
- Portuguese,
- Spanish,
- Swedish,
- English - HI,
- German - HI
- Audio Format
- Dolby Digital Mono
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1 16:9 Enhanced
- Transfer Aspect Ratio
- Widescreen
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
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