Jane Pickens Theater: REPO MAN

It’s blue collar Sci-Fi, black comedy, an Iggy Pop fueled plot-twister, social satire w/ a side of extraterrestrials: it’s 1984’s REPO MAN. Experience a 40th Anniversary Screening restored in 4k by Criterion.

STAR!

A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in repossessing a mysterious —and otherworldly—Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties LA punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is also a politically trenchant take on President Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies.

Widely considered one of the best films of the 80’s and ranked seventh on Entertainment Weekly’s Top 50 Cult Films All Time list, REPO MAN’s 98% Rotten Tomato critical consensus reads: “Repo Man is many things: an alien-invasion film, a punk-rock musical, a send-up of consumerism. One thing it isn’t is boring.”

STARRING

Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton

R

RELEASE DATE

1984