Ramin BahraniCast
Alejandro Polanco Isamar Gonzales Rob Sowulski Carlos Zapata Ahmad Razvi Anthony Felton
Credits
Written by: Bahareh Azimi
Plot
A twelve-year-old orphan, Alejandro, who works in an auto-body repair shop in Willets Point, Queens, hustles to save money for a food truck for himself and his sister, in a neorealist portrait of immigrant life.
Sinekatalog’s take
A vivid and humane neorealist portrait of New York immigrants.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (4,964 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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