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Mar 2, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: March 2 1984 Repo Man Was Released in Theaters.

On this day March 2 1984 the cult classic Repo Man was released in theaters. Directed by Alex Cox the film starred Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez in a bizarre mix of science fiction punk rock and dark comedy.

The story followed Otto a young punk rocker played by Emilio Estevez who gets recruited into the strange world of car repossession by a seasoned repo man played by Harry Dean Stanton. What starts as a gritty job quickly turns into a wild adventure involving government...

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