Michael Mann
1981

There's some crazy pacing issues with this. I noticed the same thing with The Insider. Mann is very intent, but it always feels like his movies are much longer than they actually are. The story of this (and say, something like Collateral) aren't really that different from any other Hollywood stuff, it's just the way it's presented.
The score, by (seriously) Tangerine Dream, hasn't aged well, making it feel even more like a product of its time.
Everyone's really good in it: James Caan is always good, Tuesday Weld is his wife and Willie Nelson plays his prison "father-figure." (I think there's some homoerotic subtext there.)