It’s 4 a.m. Do you know where your car is?
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
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Cool, comic, plot-driven and relentless.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
21 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Sinceres.
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“Is this Alex Cox's best work?”
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“Does Harry Dean Stanton steal Repo Man from Emilio Estevez?”
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“Does the irony keep it from meaning anything?”
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- John Chardon TMDB · Apr 20159/10
It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. Repo Man has become one of those films where even though it was savaged by many critics of the time (not Ebert, he loved it), was met with very poor box office as well, but now everyone seems to shout that they loved it back then, always have! It is the very definition of a "cult movie", a pic that went underground and found its audience, so much so it burst back above ground and today is still being discovered by an ever intrigued movie loving audience. Repo Man was one of a kind, a film that refused to be pigeon holed, a true original. Story for what it's worth has Emilio Estevez as L.A. punk Otto Maddox who gets bluffed into a repo man job. Taken under the wing of Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), Otto gets to become a fully fledged repo man, taking on all the perks and dangers that come with the territory. But when a mysterious 1964 Chevy Malibu arrives on the patch, all bets seem to be off because everyone is either after it or being disintegrated by it! The life of a repo man is always intense. OK! Where to start? Offbeat, eccentric, punk, funky, funny, smart? Repo Man is all those things, it dares to be bold and challenging,
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Cast
- Emilio EstevezOtto Maddox
- Harry Dean StantonBud
- Tracey WalterMiller
- Olivia BarashLeila
- Sy RichardsonLite
- Susan BarnesAgent Rogersz
- Fox HarrisJ. Frank Parnell
- Tom FinneganOly
- Del ZamoraLagarto
- Eddie VelezNapo
Crew
- Alex CoxDirector
- Alex CoxWriter
- Robby MüllerDirector of Photography
- Steven HufsteterOriginal Music Composer
- Tito LarrivaOriginal Music Composer
- Dennis DolanEditor
- Peter McCarthyProducer
- Jonathan WacksProducer
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Pairings
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Both cool, comic, plot-driven.
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