Repo Man received widespread acclaim, was considered one of the best films of 1984, and has since achieved cult film status.
Plot
The film opens outside of Goffs, California, in the Mojave Desert. A 1964 Chevrolet Malibu driven by Dr. J. Frank Parnell (Fox Harris) is pulled over by a policeman. The cop 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 since it pays cash.
You know the payment’s overdue Before you know it he’ll steal yours too He’s sent to repossess With his jimmy he will have easy access to your Caddy Intense, in a sense Compensating by the model Rich payoff, an El Dorado Graveyard shift is more intense Logically the better bet Into his you can see Fearless, hostile tendencies Knowing that it only takes A second to be shot point-blank The life of danger he shall lead It’s worth the risk and all the greed He’s sent to repossess The different prices he will get To steal your neighbor’s red Corvette Intense, in a sense Compensating by the model Rich payoff, an El Dorado Graveyard shift is more intense Logically the better bet Into his you can see Fearless, hostile tendencies Knowing that it only takes A second to be shot point-blank Nobody ever said “I wanna be a Repo Man” The few, the young, the proud will be selected and trained thoroughly Who’s the jerk that stole the “Z” Everybody points at me That’s OK, I’ll take the blame All of you would do the same Under the right circumstance You’d probably stab your best friend’s back But as it pertains to me It is just an intense hobby You know the payment’s overdue Before you know it he’ll steal yours too He’s sent to repossess With his jimmy he will have easy access to your Caddy Intense, in a sense In the nighttime is when it starts Inconspicuous into the dark Look into my eyes and you’ll see who I am
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