Straight Time

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, et al.

After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it's a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his self-destructive bent. Before and during the film's shoot, Hoffman apprenticed himself to Edward Bunker, the ex-con whose book No Beast So Fierce inspired the movie. The resulting experience is intensely real and superbly acted by Hoffman and a terrific ensemble cast (Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh and Kathy Bates). As Newsweek's David Ansen wrote, Straight Time "has an edgy, lingering intensity."

• Format: Blu-ray
• UPC: 883929781089
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Publisher: BBC
• Director: Ulu Grosbard
• Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, Sandy Barron, Kathy Bates, Eddie Bunker, Fran Ryan, Rita Taggart
• Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.