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Chop Shop

  • 1hr 24m
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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Ramin Bahrani

Producer:

Jeb Brody

Release Date:

Feb 27, 2008

Runtime:

1hr 24m

Synopsis

Alejandro, a resourceful 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, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister.

Cast

  • Alejandro Polanco
  • Isamar Gonzales
  • Ahmad Razvi
  • Carlos Ayala
  • Laura Patalano
  • Nick Jasprizza
  • Carlos Zapata
  • Bedford T. Bentley

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Metacritic

83
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Based on 20 Critics
7.7

USER SCORE (22)

Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Reviews
80

Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has followed up his well-received Man Push Cart with another penetrating portrait of life on the outskirts of New York.

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Metacritic review by Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
The Hollywood Reporter
83

Though Chop Shop is an American film, it feels more like an Iranian movie or the Dardenne Brothers’ Rosetta; Bahrani introduces something like a plot point in the late-going, but he mostly focuses, to riveting effect, on how his young hero hustles and claws through everyday life.

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Metacritic review by Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
The A.V. Club
70

Ultimately, the pic will be noted and remembered not for any inherent drama or analysis but for its simply having so thoroughly documented a strange place most people have never seen and never knew existed.

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Metacritic review by Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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