Chop Shop (2007)
- Directed by
- Ramin Bahrani
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 82 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A twelve-year-old orphan works and lives in a gritty Queens neighborhood filled with auto shops and scrapyards. He hustles to survive and care for his older sister.
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What happens
Chop Shop is a 2007 American drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Ramin Bahrani. The film tells the story of a twelve-year-old street orphan living and working in Willets Point, an area in Queens, New York, filled with automobile repair shops, scrapyards and garbage dumps. Chop Shop premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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