Forest Whitaker says the message hooked him to 'Repo Men'

The sci-fi action film echoes the recent sub-prime meltdown and current healthcare reform debate. Forest Whitaker plays Jake, who repossesses devices for an artificial-organ company even if they are still in use, in "Repo Men." Jude Law also stars.



March 18, 2010

Forest Whitaker is calling from New York to discuss "Repo Men," which pits lifelong friends Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Whitaker) against each other when they find themselves on opposite sides of a collections dispute in a not-too-distant, corporatized future. An artificial-organ company dispatches the likes of Remy and Jake to repossess its devices past a certain point of account delinquency. In this particular dispute, the organ to be repossessed happens to be inside Remy.

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