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