Used Cars Page #8

Synopsis: Used car salesman Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) needs money to run for State Senate, so he approaches his boss Luke (Jack Warden). Luke agrees to front him the $10,000 he needs, but then encounters an "accident" orchestrated by his brother Roy also played by Warden, who runs the car lot across the street. Roy is hoping to claim title to his brother's property because Roy's paying off the mayor to put the new interstate through the area. After Luke disappears, it's all out war between the competing car shops, and no nasty trick is off limits as Rudy and his gang fight to keep Roy from taking Luke's property. Then Luke's daughter shows up.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Robert Zemeckis
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
1980
113 min
760 Views


protesting outside when i got here.

- Jim had to turn the fire hose on them.

- I knocked them right on their ass too!

I'm still five grand short.

We've got to fight fire with fire.

You'll be fighting fire

with enhanced radiation weaponry.

You guys are sure

you can pull this off, right?

Are we sure we can pull this off?

If i can build and install

a pacemaker in this man's chest, -

- i can damn well

bounce a microwave off a satellite!

Jesus, look at this thing!

Look at this...

only twelve ninety-five.

Don't you have some equipment to hook up?

Oh sh*t! Radio shack

closes in half an hour. Let's go!

- How do you change the batteries?

- It's rechargeable.

Guys! Back door, it's still light outside.

See you tomorrow night.

- Remember:
We cut in at exactly 9.03.

- Post meridian.

- What?

- Never mind.

Okay, freddie, 9.03.

- What are you guys doing?

- Will you get down!

- What?

- Do you see that woman out there?

She's trouble.

She pulled up in that red toyota.

I'm not kidding! I think she's from

the consumer protection agency.

You see the way she's looking at that

blue chevy? She knows it's a taxi.

You're paranoid.

I bet you the first thing she asks is,

"where's the owner?"

Girls who look that great don't work

for the consumer protection agency.

Just don't let the little head

do the thinking for the big head.

- Trust me.

- I do.

Congratulations!

This is our giveaway week.

Since you're our one hundredth customer,

you win.

You just won a candlelight dinner for two,

but i can see there's only one of you.

So i'll throw myself in with the deal.

How does that sound?

Listen, can you tell me

where i might find the owner?

Well... yeah...

great, because, you see,

i was just trying to...

let me tell you about this car.

I can give you an unbelievably low price.

I would certainly hope so.

Look at the finish.

- Is something wrong with the finish?

- Yeah, i see primer.

Where?

I see yellow primer here,

i see it here, i see it here...

she's baiting him.

She's knows it's a taxi, rudy!

She's from the

consumer protection agency.

I'm not with any consumer protection

agency. I used to be, but i'm not now.

- Better business bureau? Nader's raiders?

- Trust me.

As in, "trust me"?

So, look, about dinner...

- listen, is luke in his office?

- No. What do you feel like eating?

- Do you expect him back shortly?

- No, he's out of town...

- he's out of town? On business?

- Pleasure. He's in Miami beach.

- Miami?

- Miami beach.

I've been to Miami beach.

It's not that bad.

I was supposed to meet my father here.

We'll find him,

what kind of car does he drive?

He used to have a green and white edsel.

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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter who is frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects. more…

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