Straight Time 1978 123movies

Watch: Straight Time 1978 123movies, Full Movie Online – After 6 years in prison, Max Dembo, a career criminal is released on parole. Max wants to go straight, but doesn’t like the restrictions of parole, much to the chagrin of his parole officer, Earl Frank. Some conditions -living in a half-way house, not associating with past friends and associates, no driving, and no drugs, all may be more difficult than he imagines especially as his encounters with Earl become increasingly tense. The way Max deals with Earl is the same way he deals with everything: his way or no way Through his life in the outside world, Max embarks on a relationship with Jenny Mercer, an employment agency clerk whom he meets while looking for a job. Jenny knows about his past criminal history, but he ends up only telling her so much of his current life if only to protect her – just in case..
Plot: After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 8,953
	82% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 129 Popularity: 5.104 | TMDB

Reviews:

A terrific picture of the criminal mindset.
Ulu Grosbard was one of the great American directors of the seventies and was certainly among the most underrated. He made “Straight Time” in 1978 and it’s a terrific movie about crime and criminals though it’s not a thriller nor even a heist movie. It’s central character, Max Dembo, (a superb Dustin Hoffman), is a career criminal; crime is built into his DNA. When he’s released from prison, where he’s served 6 years for armed robbery, he at first seems repentant but it isn’t long before he has a run-in with his unsympathetic and vindictive parole officer, (M. Emmett Walsh, excellent). From this point on, it’s all downhill.

Were this film in French you wouldn’t think twice in saying it was a Jean-Pierre Melville picture. Like Melville’s work this film deals in criminal mindsets; it’s about the minutiae of crime. Dembo and his associates are professional criminals but they are messy and arrogant, more likely to die an early death or spend more time in prison than out of it.

This is a beautifully acted, highly intelligent picture. Others in the cast include Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton and Gary Busey, brilliant as a young would-be gangster not making much of a job of trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Adapted from the novel “No Beast so Fierce” by Edward Bunker, who also appears as another criminal, and beautifully photographed by Owen Roizman it really deserves to be better known.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 9900000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Ulu Grosbard, Dustin Hoffman
Writer Edward Bunker, Alvin Sargent, Jeffrey Boam
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,130 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm