Otto (Emilo Estevez) is a 'suburban white punk', working dead end jobs, frustrated with his lot in life, when he is one day tricked into delivering a car for a repo man. Initially resentful, he's pushed to join them when he finds out his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist. He's subsequently taken under the wing of Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), who trains Otto in the code of the repo man. Meanwhile across town a man is driving a Chevy Malibu around with some interesting cargo in the boot, stolen from a government lab. Otto and the other repo men try to track the car down when it is listed for reposession with a huge price tag. Intertwined with this Otto keeps bumping into an old friend, who has taken to robbing stores. Unfortunately it's usually whilst he's robbing them!A true original, part sci-fi, part comedy and chock full of swipes at everything from scientology to reaganomics and even product placement. It also touches on the punk lifestyle of LA at that moment, and makes great use of it within the soundtrack. A classic cult film of it's time, that has aged well. Not for everyone's taste, but certainly mine. Just remember, 'the life of a repo man is always intense'.
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