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Release Date:
February 27, 2008
Original Title:
Chop Shop
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Big Beach
Muskat Filmed Properties
Noruz Films
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 84
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.
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Art Direction:
Elliott Glick
Boom Operator:
Joseph Stephens
Co-Producer:
Bedford T. Bentley
Pradip Ghosh
Costume Design:
Daphne Javitch
Director:
Ramin Bahrani
Director of Photography:
Michael Simmonds
Editor:
Ramin Bahrani
Executive Producer:
Peter Saraf
Line Producer:
Kathryn Dean
Original Music Composer:
M. Lo
Producer:
Marc Turtletaub
Lisa Muskat
Jeb Brody
Production Design:
Richard A. Wright
Sound Effects Editor:
Abigail Savage
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Tom Efinger
William Tabanou
Writer:
Bahareh Azimi
Ramin Bahrani
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