REPO MAN 1984

“ONLY AN ASSHOLE GETS KILLED FOR A CAR”

- SIMON TELFORD

FIERY young punk Otto Maddox (a pre-Breakfast Club Estevez) is having a bad day in Reagan-era LA. First he loses his shitty gig at Pik N Pay. Then his girlfriend dumps him for his best mate in the time it takes to grab a beer from the fridge. And to top it off, his hippy parents have been zombified by a televangelist.

Things take a wild turn when Otto falls into the world of repossession agents at the Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation. Despite his initial distaste for the work, money talks, and repo veteran Bud (Stanton) soon takes Otto under his grizzled wing. Bud teaches Otto the tricks of the trade and waxes lyrical about the repo code, which includes such gems as: “I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof, nor through inaction let that vehicle or the personal contents thereof come to harm.”

Bud claims to have never broken into or hotwired a car in the course of his profession and advises Otto to dress like a detective: “Detectives dress kinda square. If you look like a detective, people are going to think you’re packing something.”