Repo Man

:For the person who repossesses property, see Repossession.

Plot

Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez), an alienated young punk rocker living in mid-1980s Los Angeles, is fired from his menial job as a supermarket stock clerk after talking back to his boss. Shortly afterwards, he finds out that his pot-smoking, ex-hippie parents have donated his entire savings account to a popular but sleazy television evangelist. Leaving home, broke, Otto gets a job almost by accident with the disingenuously named "Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation," a small-time automobile repossession agency, where he works with a seasoned repo man and mentor Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) who teaches him the often hazardous art of repossessing automobiles.

Related Topics:
Emilio Estevez - Punk rocker - Los Angeles - Clerk - Pot - Hippie - Evangelist - Harry Dean Stanton

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Soon, Bud, Otto and competing repo men all over town are searching for a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu sedan from New Mexico oddly valued at $20,000; this vehicle, unknown to them, contains something mysterious and dangerously powerful in its trunk, also sought by a strange female FBI agent, Agent Rogersz (Susan Barnes) and her staff. The film draws on Cox's own experiences as a repo man in Los Angeles when he was younger, but soon deviates into the surreal with aliens, the CIA, televangelism, punk rocker thieves and other strange characters and situations, all amid a long string of hilarious running gags and bizarre, almost-impossible coincidences.

Related Topics:
1964 - Chevrolet Malibu - Sedan - New Mexico - Susan Barnes - Los Angeles - Aliens - CIA - Running gags

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The soundtrack features now-classic punk rock tracks by Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies and others. Producer Mike Nesmith has a small cameo role.

Related Topics:
Punk rock - Black Flag - Circle Jerks - Suicidal Tendencies - Mike Nesmith

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