What is Straight Time / Going Home about?

Name: Straight Time / Going Home
Genre: Drama

STRAIGHT TIME, 1978, Warner Bros., 114 min. Dir. Ulu Grosbard. Reformed Los Angeles junkie and thief Dustin Hoffman comes up against the gritty realities of a smugly unfair parole officer (M. Emmett Walsh) and the limited employment opportunities for ex-convicts. Although the bitter Hoffman finds love in the form of Theresa Russell, his institutionalized resentments gradually suck him back down into the company of lower companions (Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton) and a life of crime. GOING HOME, 1971, Warner Bros., 97 min. Dir. Herbert B. Leonard. Teenager Jan-Michael Vincent, after growing up in a succession of boys’ homes, tracks down the estranged, out-on-parole father (Robert Mitchum) who had murdered Vincent’s mother in a drunken rage years before. Mitchum, living in a trailer park with his savvy younger girlfriend (Brenda Vaccaro), is trying to put his life back together. But the dysfunctional dynamic is not so easily exorcised.

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What is Straight Time / Going Home about?: STRAIGHT TIME, 1978, Warner Bros., 114 min. Dir. Ulu Grosbard. Reformed Los Angeles junkie and thief Dustin Hoffman comes up against the gritty realities of a smugly unfair parole officer (M. Emmett Walsh) and the limited employment opportunities for ex-convicts. Although the bitter Hoffman finds love in the form of Theresa Russell, his institutionalized resentments gradually suck him back down into the company of lower companions (Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton) and a life of crime.

GOING HOME, 1971, Warner Bros., 97 min. Dir. Herbert B. Leonard. Teenager Jan-Michael Vincent, after growing up in a succession of boys’ homes, tracks down the estranged, out-on-parole father (Robert Mitchum) who had murdered Vincent’s mother in a drunken rage years before. Mitchum, living in a trailer park with his savvy younger girlfriend (Brenda Vaccaro), is trying to put his life back together. But the dysfunctional dynamic is not so easily exorcised.