STRAIGHT TIME

'''Straight Time''' is 1978 film directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Kathy Bates and Harry Dean Stanton.

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Plot Summary

Production

Plot Summary

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.

Production

Hoffman's character was based on James Durbin. The screenplay was written by Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, Alvin Sargent and Edward Bunker, from Bunker's novel ''No Beast So Fierce''.
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''.