Repo Man (1984) on Netflix
After losing his job and his girlfriend, punk Otto Maddox signs on with a Los Angeles repossession agency. A bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu sends him after the car.
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Plot summary
Otto Maddox is a punk rocker in Los Angeles with no job, no money and a girlfriend who leaves him for his best friend. A stranger named Bud offers him twenty-five dollars to drive a car across town, and Otto discovers the car was being repossessed for the Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation. Learning that his parents gave the college fund they promised him to a televangelist, he takes a job as an apprentice repo man. The agency and its rivals chase a twenty-thousand-dollar bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu. A woman named Leila tells Otto the trunk of that car holds aliens whose radiation makes it dangerous, and government agents are hunting it too.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Repo Man (1984)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Alex Cox's inspiration for the film came from his own experiences working alongside a real repossession agent, Mark Lewis.
- Iggy Pop volunteered to write the film's title song after his manager viewed a screening of Repo Man.
- Repo Man picked up a cult following, helped by Cox's re-edited television version, which deliberately used surreal overdubs to replace the profanity.
- Cox first imagined Repo Man as a road movie, then reworked the story to be set mostly in Los Angeles so the film could stay within its budget.
- During the summer 1983 shoot, Cox encouraged the cast to improvise, and the film's ending turned out notably different from what had originally been written.
