REPO MAN -
COLLECTOR'S EDITION
Repo Man - Collector's Edition
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Susan Barnes
Director: Alex Cox
Format: Color,
Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Run Time: 93 minutes
DVD Features:
- Available Subtitles:
English, Spanish, French
- Available Audio
Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Commentary by:
Writer/Director Alex Cox, Executive Producer Michael Nesmith, Casting
Director Victoria Thomas, Actors Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss and Del
Zamora
- Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo
- Up Close with Harry
Dean Stanton
- Repossessed
- The Missing Scenes
Movie:
 
Disc:
 With
punk making a semi-comeback nowadays with the popularity of bands like Green Day, it
is perhaps fitting that Repo Man, the
quintessential nihilist punk sci-fi comedy of all time be given the
“collector’s edition” treatment on DVD.
Starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton (Alien,
Paris Texas) and directed by Brit Alex Cox, this 1984 movie has
dated, sure, but it has so many quotable lines and its plot is such an
original blend of science fiction and black comedy that it is easy to
understand the film’s minor cult status. Along with
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th
Dimension it is one of 1980s cults you either belong to
—
or don’t.
What’s it about? Mixing several subplots and plots, the movie follows the
travails of a young dead-end punk (Estevez) as he becomes involved with a
group of “repo men,” basically amoral hucksters who repossess cars whose
owners had gotten behind on their monthly payments. Thrown into the mix is a
an old ‘Sixties car possessing terrible powers (whoever opens the trunk gets
nuked!) driven by an insane scientist, a shadowy government agency searching
for the car and a trio of vicious punks going around and robbing everybody.
Difficult to explain as you might have gathered . . .
THE DISC: Deleted scenes, a chat with some of the stars and creative
personnel as well as an audio commentary – and nowhere did I get the answer
to the one question I had watching this film, namely “where did they get the
idea for it all?” was it written by someone who actually were such a “repo
man”? I don’t know, and the special features weren’t forthcoming.
WORTH IT? An offbeat and once-off movie, Repo Man ought to
appeal to anyone with a taste for Quentin Tarantino and early (good) Coen
Bros. movies.
RECOMMENDATION: There is violence and loads of cursing so women
probably won’t like it, but males of a certain age and inclination will find
Repo Man irresistible even when the plot do spend a lot of time going
nowhere and dwelling on the eccentricities and quirks of the film’s central
characters. Check it out if you suspect you fit the bill.
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