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. Isamar Gonzales, Alejandro Polanco, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi, Anthony Felton.
Summary:
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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