# Revengeance (film)

Revengeance is an American adult animated buddy cop crime biker action black comedy film directed by Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan. The film tells the story of a low-rent bounty hunter named Rod Rosse, The One Man Posse, who gets entangled in a web of danger when he takes on a job from an ex-biker/ex-wrestler turned U.S. senator named "Deathface." Lujan also wrote, composed, and voiced several characters in the film. Plympton single-handedly animated the entire film by pencil on paper, which was digitally reworked and colored by his staff.

## Plot

A madcap romp through a 1970s Los Angeles underbelly of bikers, wrestlers, strippers, cult members, bounty hunters and corrupt politicians, Revengeance was scripted and designed by Lujan, and directed and animated by Plympton. After a fire ravages the den of the Inland Emperors biker gang, their former leader and ex-wrestler turned senator Deathface calls on bounty hunters to find fugitive teen Lana, suspected of causing the arson attack and taking something that belongs to him.
Among the bounty hunters is one of Lujan’s favourite pre-existing characters, Rod Rosse "The One-Man Posse", a diminutive, balding private eye whose partner is his ballsy, cat-loving mother. The motley group of mercenary investigators, which also includes the Blaxploitation-styled Odell Braxton and the devious truck-driving troll Ace of Spades, is sent off on Lana’s trail with the whole reward promised to the first who brings her back. As Rosse tries to fend off his unscrupulous rivals, the terrifying bikers and a trigger-happy armed religious cult, the secrets held by the fearsome, bow-wielding Lana gradually come to light.
Set in the Inland Empire area east of Los Angeles, the delirious multi-stranded plot ties up at the end in an explosion of anarchic, satirical insanity that recalls 1960s-70s underground comics. Lujan and Plympton are both masters of sleazy irreverence and their mordant, scatological-inflected humour is bracingly amped up in their collaboration. Together, they have produced an unbridled, caustic, grotesquely comic vision of America that feels particularly timely.

## Cast

* Jim Lujan as Rod Rosse/ Deathface/ Mom/ Ms. Candy/ The Master/ Gary the Clerk/ Connie Sanchez/ Sandman/ Luis Escobar
* Sara Ulloa - Lana
* Keith Knight as Pawnshop Slim
* Ken Mora as Cujo
* Robert Lujan as Bartender Cha Cha Boom
* Charley Rossman as Biker Meeting Leader
* Lalo Alcaraz as Royce Vargas
* Kaya Rogue as Odell Braxton
* Geo Brawn as The Shademan
* Jose Tanaka as himself
* John Holderried as E-Money
* Matthew Modine as Sid (uncredited)
* Dave Foley as Ace of Spades (uncredited)
* Kristina Wong as Krtisti, Lana's Mom (uncredited)
* Ruby Modine as Lana's Aunt (uncredited)

## Release

Revengeance premiered at the L'Étrange Festival in Paris, France, in September 2016. It played as an unannounced feature in December 2016 at the 13th London International Animation Festival, and made its US premiere on February 18, 2017, at the 40th Portland International Film Festival, in Portland, Oregon. It was later released on DVD and Blu-Ray.

## Awards

* 2017 Nashville Film Festival Animated Feature Competition Grand Jury Prize Winner