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Straight Time: Literary Connections & Standards

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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Straight Time topic overview

The analysis highlights Literary Connections and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around Straight Time.

Related topics
70
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
80
Extracted relationships
70
Concept neighborhoods
22
Bridge connections
80

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Production · 24 topics
Reception · 16 topics
Overview · 13 topics
Plot · 7 topics
Release · 4 topics
Cast · 3 topics
Influence · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker
Box office
$9.9 million
Budget
$3.5 million–$4 million
Cinematography
Owen Roizman
Country
United States
Directed by
Ulu Grosbard

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Release

Reception

Influence

Sources

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Straight Time connects Entity context

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.

Straight Time

Top relations

related to Filming · 18
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
related to Critical response · 14
Straight Time → American, At, Chicago Tribune, Credit, Gene Siskel, He, Hoffman, In, It, Max, Most, Russell, The New York Times, Vincent Canby
related to Influence · 5
Straight Time → Eddie Bunker, Max Dembo, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino
related to External links · 4
Straight Time → AFI Catalog, Feature FilmsStraight Time, IMDbStraight Time, Rotten Tomatoes
related to Release · 4
Straight Time → March, Pictures, United States, Warner Bros
Screenplay by · 3
Straight Time → Alvin Sargent, Edward Bunker, Jeffrey Boam
Starring · 3
Straight Time → Dustin Hoffman, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton
Edited by · 2
Straight Time → Randy Roberts, Sam O'Steen
Produced by · 2
Straight Time → Stanley Beck, Tim Zinnemann
related to Box office · 2
Straight Time → United States, Warner Bros

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

hoffman film max time straight grosbard los angeles dustin jenny warner bros russell gary busey stanton production box office earl

Straight Time relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Straight TimeBased onNo Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker1.00infobox
Straight TimeBox office$9.9 million1.00infobox
Straight TimeBudget$3.5 million–$4 million1.00infobox
Straight TimeCinematographyOwen Roizman1.00infobox
Straight TimeCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Straight TimeDirected byUlu Grosbard1.00infobox
Straight TimeDistributed byWarner Bros. Pictures1.00infobox
Straight TimeEdited bySam O'Steen1.00infobox
Straight TimeEdited byRandy Roberts1.00infobox
Straight TimeLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Straight TimeMusic byDavid Shire1.00infobox
Straight TimeProduced byStanley Beck1.00infobox
Straight TimeProduced byTim Zinnemann1.00infobox
Straight TimeProduction companyFirst Artists1.00infobox
Straight TimeRelease dateMarch 17, 1978 (1978-03-17)1.00infobox
Straight TimeRunning time114 minutes1.00infobox
Straight TimeScreenplay byAlvin Sargent1.00infobox
Straight TimeScreenplay byEdward Bunker1.00infobox
Straight TimeScreenplay byJeffrey Boam1.00infobox
Straight TimeStarringDustin Hoffman1.00infobox
Straight TimeStarringHarry Dean Stanton1.00infobox
Straight TimeStarringGary Busey1.00infobox
Straight Timeis a1978 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Dustin Hoffman0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

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.

  • Straight Time
    • Time
    • Dustin
    • Starring
    • Box
    • Bunker
    • Dean
    • Harry
    • Office
    • Pictures
    • States
    • Ulu
    • United
  • straight time
    • Time
    • Box
    • Office
    • Pictures
    • States
    • United
    • Dustin
    • Starring
    • Bunker
    • Dean
    • Harry
    • Ulu
  • dustin hoffman
    • Dean
    • Harry
    • Busey
    • Gary
    • Stanton
    • Hoffman
    • Starring
    • Ulu
    • Russell
    • Straight
    • Time
    • First
  • gary busey
    • Dean
    • Harry
    • Busey
    • Gary
    • Stanton
    • Ulu
    • Russell
    • Starring
    • Dustin
    • Based
    • Bunker
    • Edward
  • harry dean stanton
    • Dean
    • Harry
    • Gary
    • Stanton
    • Russell
    • Starring
    • Dustin
    • Ulu
    • Grosbard
    • Time
    • Based
    • Box
  • edward bunker
    • Bunker
    • Edward
    • Fierce
    • Busey
    • Starring
    • Box
    • Dean
    • Harry
    • Office
    • Production
    • Ulu
    • Straight
  • warner bros. pictures
    • Bros
    • Warner
    • States
    • United
    • Box
    • Office
    • Time
    • Straight
    • Prison
    • Starring
    • Bunker
    • Dean
  • jake busey
    • Dean
    • Harry
    • Gary
    • Stanton
    • Russell
    • Starring
    • Dustin
    • Based
    • Bunker
    • Edward
    • Fierce
    • Ulu

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

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.

Min side: 3
Straight TimeProduction · splits 56 ⟂ 25
Straight TimeReception · splits 64 ⟂ 17
Straight TimeOverview · splits 67 ⟂ 14
Straight TimePlot · splits 73 ⟂ 8
Straight TimeRelease · splits 76 ⟂ 5
Straight TimeCast · splits 77 ⟂ 4
Straight TimeInfluence · splits 77 ⟂ 4
Straight TimeSources · splits 78 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Straight Time

Nodes81
Edges80
Triples70
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024691
Components1

Source & methodology

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

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