Hot off their madcap rendering of America in 1941, the two Bobs (Zemeckis and Gale) decide to narrow their acerbic vision of the U.S. to focus on two competing used car lots, situated in an Arizona desert. The lots are filled with rows and rows of decrepit, broken-down automobiles bleaching like bones in the hot, dry sun. Both lots are run by Jack Warden, playing two different characters - one passive, one greedy, both consummate capitalists who happen to be twin brothers. The “good” lot features Kurt Russell as their star salesman, who also has his sights set on running for a greased-up role in the world of bad faith politics. The tables take a weird turn however, when Russell’s boss is murdered by the competing lot (in a scene that most certainly was on Tarantino’s mind when he made DEATH PROOF). Now tasked with hiding the death of his boss from the public eye, for fear of losing ownership of the lot, Russell and his team toss out every signifier of moral standing, and choose to let their ids solve this vexing problem on its own. USED CARS excels at elevating the virtues of extremely low-brow comedy, to a heavenly level of morally-dubious, crass excess, complete with a mastery of the cinematic form so heart-stopping, they had to start the movie with one of the most impressive crane-shots in history this side of Hitchcock’s NOTORIOUS. Ahead of its time, with its peculiar brand of knee-slapping cynicism resounding better than ever, this undersung classic points ahead to many examples of black-hearted comedy to come in the 90’s and 00’s, most notably the films of the Farrelly brothers and the late-great Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald’s seminal classic, DIRTY WORK.