在这部追讨者动作/喜剧/科幻片中,这部迎合美国知识份子口味的影片一上市，即蠃得了美国公众的一致好评。导演本人亦藉此一举成名．该片讲述由斯坦顿饰演的洛杉矶青年奥图，他在失去工作之后，协助一个思想极为顽固的老头卖旧汽车，从而引发一连串情节离奇的事件。此片以其新颖独特的手法生动勾画出洛杉矶不同类型文化的人物形象，节奏明快，影像鲜明，深具时代艺术电影色彩。
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk.
只为了回味闪光的80年代……。可供膜拜的Cult标签。
