REPO MAN (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1984
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Science-Fiction
• Plot: Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk.
• Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Susan Barnes, Fox Harris, Tom Finnegan, Del Zamora, Eddie Velez, Zander Schloss, Jennifer Balgobin, Dick Rude, Miguel Sandoval, Vonetta McGee, Richard Foronjy, Bruce White, Biff Yeager, Ed Pansullo, Steve Mattson, Thomas R. Boyd, Charles Hopkins, Helen Martin, Jon St. Elwood, Kelitta Kelly, Varnum Honey, Sue Kiel, David Chung, Cynthia Szigeti, Dorothy Bartlett, Jonathon Hugger, Sharon Gregg, Dale Reynolds, Jac McAnelly, Shep Wickham, Gregg Taylor, Jon Fondy, Keith Miley, Michael Bennett, Brad Jamieson, Jimmy Buffett, Janet Chan, Angelique Pettyjohn, Logan Carter, Laura Sorrenson, George Sawaya, Connie Ponce, Bob Ellis, Quentin Gutierrez, Richard Surukawa, 'Earthquake' Hesson, Keith Morris, Greg Hetson, Chuck Biscuits, Earl Liberty, Clyde Grimes, Chuck Askerneese, Kevin Long, Jerry Miller, Rob Lampron, Josh Harris, Herman Askerneese, Kim Williams, Michele Person, Wally Cronin, Monona Wali, Delores Delux, Cosmo Mata, Rodney Bingenheimer, Jorge Martínez, Melanie Schloss, Nancy Richardson, Con Covert, Luis Contreras, Alex Cox, Todd Darling, Linda Jensen, Tom Musca, Terry Schwartz, Peter Wacks, Abbe Wool
• Director: Alex Cox
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: Universal, Edge City
• Media Format: Movie