Hard Time is a 1998 American made-for-television action crime film directed by and starring Burt Reynolds.

[4] Logan McQueen, a Vietnam War veteran and Miami police officer, chases two briefcase thieves down an alley.

Logan is put in prison pending investigation but his bail is provided by the mob, who expect him to return money that is missing from the stolen briefcase.

Logan begins to suspect that someone in his own police department is framing him for the crimes but the mob has now given him an opportunity to seek the truth.

[6] Reynolds said he liked the film because he liked the idea of watching someone who had strong views on capital punishment change his mind.

Reynolds said the character was like his father, "one of the fairest men I've ever known, but he is prejudiced about things, and that's because he spent his whole life as a policeman.

Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had telling me to turn left at the couch.

Higgs obtains weapons and he and Logan infiltrate the hotel through a basement window, but are overheard by the FBI and the criminals as they are communicating with Captain Waters on a walkie-talkie channel.

Duffy shoots Kenny and Logan chases Flynn through the tunnels under the hotel, navigating a series of booby traps marked in Vietnamese.