Straight Time (1978)
Straight Time (1978)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:56:35 | 5,92 Gb
Audio: English, French - AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track)
Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Genre: Crime, Drama
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:56:35 | 5,92 Gb
Audio: English, French - AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track)
Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Genre: Crime, Drama
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. When he is released again, he assaults the parole officer, steals his car, and returns to a life of crime.
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Dustin Hoffman is known for performances using tricks and gimmicks, like his limping, heavily-accented Ratzo Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy. But he's even better when he relaxes into straight character roles, as in Kramer vs. Kramer. Hoffman underplays Max Dembo beautifully. Max is an intelligent guy crushed by his time in jail but too proud to take the abuse of his parole officer Earl Frank.
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Frank acts like it's no big deal to stick Max in jail for a week, even after a negative drug test. Frank then pressures Max to rat on the real drug user with the threat of sending him to strict supervision in a halfway house. That's too much to bear for Dembo, who has already formed a relationship with the understanding Jenny Mercer. He runs Frank's car off the road, handcuffs him to a chain-link fence with his pants pulled down, and leaps headlong back into serious crime.
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Max is grateful for Jenny's affection but not above using her apartment as a headquarters for his criminal activities. He takes her to a fancy restaurant and then suggests that they should just walk out on the check. He visits the obviously unstable Willy Darin and is crushed when Darin's wife Selma (a very young Kathy Bates) asks him to stay away; Willy has no defense against bad influences. Max robs a convenience store and burglarizes a pawnshop on his own because he has difficulty finding reliable associates.
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A connection in a bar (played by author Bunker) finds him a good partner, but the man is never available. We then see Max at a backyard barbecue with ex-crook Jerry Schue. Schue's cute wife Carol (Rita Taggart) serves burgers and makes small talk about her husband's reformation, but as soon as she's gone Jerry looks to Max and says, "Get me out of here!" He's going nuts in suburbia and wants to return to the robbery racket.
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Straight Time plays its theme out to a logical conclusion. Max is an efficient and smart thief but he cannot discipline himself during his robberies. While Jerry wails that their time is up and the cops will catch them, the stubborn Dembo keeps emptying teller's drawers. After his getaway driver chickens out, the robbery of a Beverly Hills jewelry store ends in chaos and bloodshed.
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Max is able to blow town with Jenny, but realizes that the incident is so big that his capture is almost assured. His bundle of stolen jewels is now too hot and therefore worthless; he can't even give Jenny a fancy watch without dragging her in as an accomplice. An ordinary crime film would use Dembo's plight to motivate a violent action set piece, but Straight Time instead shows Max withdrawing into his no-escape prison mentality. We can see the glaze forming on Hoffman's eyes as he realizes that he's run out of options.
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Straight Time is a fine showcase for some very special actors. Harry Dean Stanton is as his best, along with the always-mysterious Theresa Russell and the almost unrecognizable Kathy Bates. It's also an early opportunity to appreciate M. Emmett Walsh before he became so memorable in Joel and Ethan Coen's films.
Straight Time (1978)
Special Features:
- Audio commentary with Director Ulu Grosbard and Actor Dustin Hoffman
- 1978 Featurette: ‘Straight Time: He Wrote it for Criminals’ (22:54)
- Theatrical Trailer (01:44)
Note! On DVDBeaver is a mistake: there is Chinese subs, not Korean as they wrote.
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