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Chop Shop
Film / 2008

Chop Shop

Directed by Ramin Bahrani
Drama

★ 6.7/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Alejandro PolancoAle Isamar GonzalesIsamar Ahmad RazviAhmad Carlos ZapataCarlos Rob SowulskiRob Anthony FeltonCarlos's Uncle Evelisse 'Lilah' OrtizEvelisse 'Lilah' Ortiz Michael 'Gringo' NietoConstruction Foreman Carlos AyalaCarlos the Pigeon Worker Laura PatalanoLaura Nick JasprizzaThe 'John'

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