2008 Movie
Out of catalog
Dir. Ramin Bahrani · United States of America · English
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Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
"Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop is a low-budget vrit triumph."
— David Edelstein
"The third feature by Iranian emigre Ramin Bahrani follows the lead of his last pic, Man Push Cart, in tightly observing a protag on the most invisible margins of U.S. life."
— Todd McCarthy
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