Chop Shop

2007

English

7.2

♡ 4

97%

queens, new york city

street urchin

Ramin Bahrani Director

Carlos Ayala as Carlos the Pigeon Worker

Cesar Di Parra as Car Thief

Laura Patalano as Laura

Sherman Alpert as Truck 'John'

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.