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Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the ru... Read allSet in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Rafferty Law
- Young Remy
- (as Raff Law)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMoments before the filming of the Chinatown scene a crew member was approached by a local Chinese person who pointed out to him that all the neon signs with Chinese characters were upside down. A frantic rigging crew proceeded to flip all the signs while the shooting crew shot in the direction of the newly flipped signs.
- GoofsWhen Jake and Remy fight in the derelict apartment and Remy wins, he is wearing street clothes. But when, at the end of the film, he is shown on the stretcher attached to the Neural Network machine after, in reality, losing this fight with Jake, he is wearing the combat clothing that he wore in the Union headquarters building, which was when he was in a dream state.
- Crazy creditsAn advertisement screen for The Union appears at the end of the closing credits.
- Alternate versionsThe Unrated version released on home video contains ~10 minutes of additional/alternative footage.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Repo Men/The Bounty Hunter/The Runaways (2010)
- SoundtracksSway (Mucho Mambo)
Written by Norman Gimbel, Pablo Beltrán Ruiz, Luis Demetrio (as Luis Demetrio Traconis Molina)
Performed by Rosemary Clooney featuring Dámaso Pérez Prado (as Perez Prado) and His Orchestra
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label
By Arrangement with Sony Music Enterprises
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This movie is a great analogy between what happened due to "the innovations" in the financial world. Example: "Sure you need to buy this house and sign for the mortgage ... you owe it to yourself ... you owe it to your family" ... And a couple of years later they take away your house and leave you with a great debt that also ruins your life and may even cost your life. More and more people are not able to cope anymore and commit suicide and sometimes even kill their own young children to "spare them". The people that come to collect or sell your stuff can be compared with the repo man. They can do it, until they're a victim themselves ... What I didn't like about this representation of how the system has become way more important than what is was for ... is the amount of blood. Still, it makes it all the more horribly and painfully clear what we're dealing with here ... What I liked about the story, is how it's presented that the bond between two people ain't all that clear. It was astounding to find out how it finally turns out what Jake has arranged for Remy.
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Repossession Mambo
- Filming locations
- Lower Bay Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada(subway station and subway train)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $32,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $13,794,835
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,126,170
- Mar 21, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $18,409,891
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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