Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
773.871.6604
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Still from Chop Shop, Courtesy Koch Lorber Films
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Mar 21, 2008 – Mar 27, 2008
Daily (7pm–midnight)
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- Price
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$9.25
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Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all similarities stop. Rather than middle-class white kids who struggle to complete their sentences, the subjects of Bahrani's films are outsiders who matter-of-factly eke out existences the average American couldn't imagine. In his latest, Chop Shop, a homeless teenager and her little brother hustle in every sense of the word to keep a tin roof over their heads, clothes on their backs, and rice and beans in their guts. Blunt and beautiful, this film pulls no punches as it articulates the hard-won joy that often accompanies struggle.
