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Straight Time is a 1978 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates. Its plot follows a lifelong thief in Los Angeles who struggles to assimilate in society after serving a six-year prison sentence. The film is based on the novel…
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The extracted context around Straight Time shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Straight Time → Burbank, California, February, Filming, Folsom, Folsom State Prison, Hoffman, Hoffman's, In, Inland Empire, Jerry Ziesmer, Los Angeles County, Principal, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Sylmar, With, Ziesmer Another extracted example is Straight Time → American, At, Chicago Tribune, Credit, Gene Siskel, He, Hoffman, In, It, Max, Most, Russell, The New York Times, Vincent Canby. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 70 structured relationships around Straight Time. Examples in this analysis include Straight Time → Based on → No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker and Straight Time → Box office → $9.9 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straight Time | Based on | No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Box office | $9.9 million | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Budget | $3.5 million–$4 million | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Cinematography | Owen Roizman | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Country | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Directed by | Ulu Grosbard | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Edited by | Sam O'Steen | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Edited by | Randy Roberts | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Language | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Music by | David Shire | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Produced by | Stanley Beck | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Produced by | Tim Zinnemann | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Production company | First Artists | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Release date | March 17, 1978 (1978-03-17) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Running time | 114 minutes | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Screenplay by | Alvin Sargent | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Screenplay by | Edward Bunker | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Screenplay by | Jeffrey Boam | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Starring | Dustin Hoffman | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Starring | Harry Dean Stanton | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | Starring | Gary Busey | 1.00 | infobox |
| Straight Time | is a | 1978 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Dustin Hoffman | 0.90 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Straight Time bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Time, Dustin and Starring. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Straight Time, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Straight Time with Production. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Straight Time to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Straight Time · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout