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Straight Time is a american film of genre Drama directed by Dustin Hoffman released in USA on 18 march 1978 with Dustin Hoffman
Straight Time (1978)
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Add to a movie listStraight Time is a 1978 film directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates.
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Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman), lifelong thief, is released from a six-year stint in prison and forced to report to a boorish and condescending parole officer, Earl (M. Emmet Walsh).Actors
Dustin Hoffman
(Max Dembo)
Harry Dean Stanton
(Jerry Schue)
Gary Busey
(Willy Darin)
Theresa Russell
(Jenny Mercer)
M. Emmet Walsh
(Earl Frank)
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