Chop shop

Chop shop

DVD - 2021

Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It's within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister even as their tenuous circumstances force each to compete with other struggling people and make desperate decisions.

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Subjects
Street children > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Orphans > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Brothers and sisters > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Automobile graveyards > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Feature films.
Motion pictures.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Motion pictures
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2021]
Language
English
Other Authors
Ramin Bahrani (film director), Bahareh Azimi (screenwriter), Marc Turtletaub (film producer), Jeb Brody (actor), Lisa Muskat, Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition ; DVD edition
Item Description
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Wide screen (1.78:1).
Special footage: Audio commentaries; new program featuring a concersation among Bahrani and others; new conversations; rehearsal footage; trailer.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1); 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Michael Simmonds; editor, Ramin Bahrani; music, M. Lo.
ISBN
9781681438061
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

A 12-year-old boy and his older sister scrape out an existence in an expansive New York junkyard working for the auto-repair shop, but each has something going on the side--selling bootleg goods, stealing purses and hubcaps, and turning tricks. Writer-director Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart) takes a naturalistic approach to his unsentimentalized story of marginalized immigrants striving for just a little better life. For most collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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