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Straight Time (1978) - (Movie Clip) You Wanna Rock'n'Roll?

Direction by Ulu Grosbard, on the specified location in Los Angeles, co-producer Dustin Hoffman as newly paroled Max Dembo calls prison buddy Gary Busey (accompanied by his own son Jake), whom we discover is married to Kathy Bates, in her second movie role, in Straight Time, 1978.

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Straight Time (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Was A Convict
Looking for work in LA after six years in prison for armed robbery, parolee Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) meets the attractive and approachable Jenny (Theresa Russell, in only her second credited role) at the employment agency, in Straight Time, 1978, directed by Ulu Grosbard.
Straight Time (1978) -- (Movie Clip) The Conditions Of Your Parole
Californian convict Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman, who also co-produced) on the evening of his release, in Los Angeles, then meeting his parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh), and being scolded, early in Straight Time, 1978, from a novel by San Quentin inmate Edward Bunker.

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