Background
Repo Man

Repo Man

1984
R
92 min
Action Comedy Crime

Plot Summary

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.

6.8
IMDb Rating
98%
Rotten Tomatoes
82
Metacritic
Section Order: 1. Cast & Crew 2. Ratings 3. Technical 4. Trailer 5. Reviews 6. Recommendations 7. Music Reorder
Section reordering is now active! Sections display in your custom order.

Ratings & Reviews

6.8
IMDb Rating
98%
Rotten Tomatoes
82
Metacritic

Technical Details

92 min
Runtime
02 Mar 1984
Release Date
R
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
1984
Year
Genres
Action Comedy Crime

Watch Trailer

User Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

9.0/10
Recent

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 mo...

Read Full Review

You Might Also Like

External Links

IMDb
tt0087995
TMDb
13820
Technical Info
02 Mar 1984
OMDb API