What is Straight Time / True Confessions about?

STRAIGHT TIME, 1978, 114 min. Reformed Los Angeles junkie and thief Hoffman comes up against the gritty realities of a smugly unfair parole officer and the limited employment opportunities for ex-convicts. TRUE CONFESSIONS, 1981, 108 min. Circa 1948, Robert Duvall is a hard-nosed cop and Robert De Niro is his brother, an enterprising monsignor rising behind the scenes with high-powered Catholic members of Los Angeles’ political elite. When a young actress is gruesomely murdered, Duvall believes one of De Niro’s high-profile parishioners, pimp-turned-building contractor Jack Amsterdam (Charles Durning), may be involved.

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What is Straight Time / True Confessions about?: STRAIGHT TIME, 1978, 114 min. Reformed Los Angeles junkie and thief Hoffman comes up against the gritty realities of a smugly unfair parole officer and the limited employment opportunities for ex-convicts.

TRUE CONFESSIONS, 1981, 108 min. Circa 1948, Robert Duvall is a hard-nosed cop and Robert De Niro is his brother, an enterprising monsignor rising behind the scenes with high-powered Catholic members of Los Angeles’ political elite. When a young actress is gruesomely murdered, Duvall believes one of De Niro’s high-profile parishioners, pimp-turned-building contractor Jack Amsterdam (Charles Durning), may be involved.