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Chop Shop (2007) -- 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.
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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   1,441 votes
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Director:
Ramin Bahrani
Writers:
Bahareh Azimi (writer)
Ramin Bahrani (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
27 February 2008 (USA) more
Plot:
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. | add synopsis
Awards:
4 wins & 5 nominations more
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Alejandro Polanco ... Ale
Isamar Gonzales ... Isamar

Ahmad Razvi ... Ahmad
Carlos Zapata ... Carlos
Rob Sowulski ... Rob
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Walter Albia ... Cell Phone Customer 3
Manny Albos ... Worker of Willet's Point
Sherman Alpert ... Truck 'John'
Pedro Altamirano ... Ahmad's Worker 1
Sneha Amin ... Ahmad's Friend
Carlos Ayala ... Carlos the Pigeon Worker
Bedford T. Bentley ... Broken Mirror Customer (as Nick Bentley)
Angelo Carillo ... Worker of Willet's Point
Raoul Chucaralao ... Ahmad's Worker 2
Nicholas Corelisco ... Ahmand's Friend
Carla Cubit ... Ahmad's Escort
Nichole Dingee ... Woman with Baby
Cesar Di Parra ... Car Thief 2
Nicholas Elliott ... Subway Customer
Anthony Felton ... Carlos's Uncle
Tyrone Gray ... Worker of Willet's Point
Roy Franisco Green ... Rob's Worker 2
Jesus Manuel Gutierrez ... Car Thief 1

Nick Jasprizza ... The 'John'
Billy Klatzis ... Rob's Worker 3
Frank Lukacs ... Parking Lot Cop
William Anthony Morales ... Lilah's Friend 2
Tony Motos ... Worker of Williet's Point

Farooq 'Duke' Muhammad ... Duke

Michael 'Gringo' Nieto ... Construction Foreman
Evelisse 'Lilah' Ortiz ... Lilah
Laura Patalano ... Laura
Jimmy Peña ... Cell Phone Customer 1
Derek Quick-Reide ... Baby in Stroller
Kirstine Quick-Reide ... Woman with Baby
Roberto Ramirez ... Cell Phone Customer 2
Edwin Rojas ... Rob's Worker 1
Shawn Leon Thomas III ... Ahmad's Friend
Anna Torevski ... Ahmad's Friend
Damien Velez ... Lilah's Friend 1
Aben Garces Zavala ... Ahmad's Friend
Kilian Zavala ... Ahmand's Friend
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:84 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:14A | USA:Unrated

Fun Stuff

Soundtrack:
Kooba Buena more

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48 out of 77 people found the following comment useful.
welcome to the slums of NYC, 23 October 2007
10/10
Author: logube from Italy

my girlfriend, as we walk in the cold London evening in leicester square, after the movie, says: if they didn't speak English and they didn't show the stadium, you could have thought this was the slums of a South American city or some other slum anywhere in the world,not Queens in NYC.

Ramin Bahrani is , right now, my official hero, because he seems to have devoted his work to show not the OTHER face of American, but the REAL face of America.

Ramin Bahrani's movies are like Ladri di biciclette, or Germania anno zero, or Roma citta' aperta. Chop shop is reality turned into a movie, is more realistic than a documentary, in fact I think Ramin Bahrani's movies are more realistic than documentaries. This is a great movies, but don't expect any car chase or shooting. This movie is about tragic lives on the margin of the wealthiest , richest country in the world.

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