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Repo Man (film)

Repo Man
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Alex Cox
Produced by
Written by Alex Cox
Starring
Music by Tito Larriva
Steven Hufsteter
Cinematography Robby Müller
Edited by Dennis Dolan
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • March 2, 1984 (1984-03-02)
Running time
92 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Spanish
Budget $1.5 million
Box office $3,750,080
Repo Man: Music from the Original Motion Picture
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Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released 1984
Recorded 1980-1984
Genre Punk rock, hardcore punk, soundtrack
Length 37:20
Label MCA
Producer Peter McCarthy and Jonathan Wacks
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars

Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy, with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez.

Repo Man received widespread acclaim, was considered one of the best films of 1984, and has since achieved cult film status.

Outside of Goffs, California, in the Mojave Desert, a policeman pulls over a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu driven by Dr. J. Frank Parnell (Fox Harris). The policeman opens the trunk, sees a blinding flash of white light, and is instantly vaporized, leaving only his boots behind.

Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez), a young punk rocker living in Los Angeles, is fired from his boring job as a supermarket stock clerk. His girlfriend leaves him for his best friend. Depressed and broke, Otto is wandering the streets when a man named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) drives up and offers him $25 to drive a car out of the neighborhood.

Otto follows Bud in the car to the "Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation" (a small automobile repossession agency), where he learns that the car he drove was being repossessed. He refuses to join Bud as a repossession agent, or "repo man", and goes to his parents' house. He learns that his burned-out, pot-smoking, ex-hippie parents (Jonathan Hugger, Sharon Gregg) have donated the money they promised him for finishing school to a crooked televangelist. He decides to take the repo job.

Otto soon learns that, as Bud had told him, "the life of a repo man is always intense." He enjoys the fast living, drug use, car chases, hot-wiring cars, and good pay. His old life is boring by comparison.

After repossessing a flashy red Cadillac, Otto sees a girl named Leila (Olivia Barash) running down the street. He gives her a ride to her workplace, the United Fruitcake Outlet ("UFO"...), where they have sex in the backseat. On the way, Leila shows Otto pictures of aliens that she says are in the trunk of a Chevy Malibu. She claims that they are dead but still dangerous because of the radiation that they emit. Meanwhile, Helping Hand and its repo rivals are offered a $20,000 bounty notice for the Malibu. Most assume that the car is drug-related, because the bounty is so far above the actual value of the car.


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