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Repo Man
USA 1984
produced by Peter McCarthy, Jonathan Wacks, Michael Nesmith (executive) for Edge City
directed by Alex Cox
starring Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Sy Richardson, Dick Rude, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Susan Barnes, Fox Harris, Tom Finnegan, Del Zamora, eddie Velez, Zander Schloss, Jennifer Balgobin, Miguel Sandoval, Vonetta McGee, Richard Foronjy, Bruce White, Biff Yeager, Ed Pansullo, Steve Mattson, Thomas R. Boyd, Charles Hopkins, Helen Martin, Jon St.Elwood, Kelitta Kelly, Varnum Honey, Sue Kiel, David Chung, Cynthia Szigeti, Dorothy Bartlett, Jonathon Hugger, Sharon Gregg, Dale Reynolds, Jac McAnelly
written by Alex Cox, mucic by Steven Hufsteter, cinematography by Robby Müller
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Down on his luck, punk Emilio Estevez is tricked into taking a job at
a company that reposesses cars (hence Repo Man) by Harry Dean Stanton.
& though in the beginning he shows little enthusiasm, he soon begins
to like his work, with all the action & car-chases. At the same
time, 4 dead aliens were stolen from a government lab & are now in
some trunk of some Chevy Malibu somewhere in LA. That alone is bad
enough, worse still is that the radiation of the dead aliens kills
instantly. & of course, since the government wants to reposess it,
they offer $ 20,000 to anyone who brings back their car. So, before
long, everybody is after the car, the government, the repo men, their
competition, a gang of punks, & of course some crazy
revolutionaries. The search for the car is not helped at all though,
that the car changes drivers every few minutes & everybody seems to
be too preoccupied with his own problems anyway to even notice the car
going by. But after lots of chases & action, the car is actually
found - by everybody at the same time -, glowing green like the
promise it is to everybody & it is about to break, but it doesn't
seem to friendly anymore, now shooting everybody coming near it, except
for Tracey Walters, the only character in the movie not crazy about
driving (in fact he doesn't know how to drive at all), & in the
kitsch-ending, he & Estevez fly off in the Chevy Malibu.
Now
this synopsis might sound like a run-of-the-mill sci-fi actioner - &
nothing could be further from the point. Director Alex Cox understands
to carefully balance the action & science fiction elements with his
brand comedy & social satire, peppered with a cast of uniformly
strong characters, all showing the director's predilection for
caricature, but nevertheless never just plain silly. All in all, an
extremely funny ride, but never stupid or mindless. |
review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
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the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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