Straight Time is a 1978 crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates.
One of the conditions of parole is that Max finds a job. At the employment agency, he meets Jenny Mercer Theresa Russell, who helps him land scalewage work at a can factory. Jenny accepts his invitation to dinner, where its clear that she is smitten by this worldly and seemingly gentle excon.Earl pays a surprise visit to Maxs room, finding a book of matches that Maxs friend Willy Gary Busey recently used to cook heroin. Although Max clearly has no track marks or other signs of drug abuse, he is handcuffed and dragged back to jail, out of a job and a home. Jenny visits him and gives him her number to call when he gets out. ........
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