
Straight Time(1978)
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.


“They changed his looks, his life and his future... but they couldn't change his past .”
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

Mickey Rourke
Johnny Handsome

Ellen Barkin
Sunny Boyd

Morgan Freeman
Lt. A.Z. Drones

Forest Whitaker
Dr. Steven Fisher

Elizabeth McGovern
Donna McCarty

Lance Henriksen
Rafe Garrett

Scott Wilson
Mikey Chalmette

David Schramm
Vic Dumask

Peter Jason
Mr. Bonet
Yvonne Bryceland
Sister Luke
Johnny Handsome is a crime, drama, thriller film released in 1989 exploring themes of prison, mask, individual, operation, robbery, restart. Directed by Walter Hill, it stars Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman. A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
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