Ramin Bahrani's impressive debut feature focuses on an urban fixture that busy city dwellers often take for granted: pushcart operators, mostly recent immigrants who, early each morning, set up their self-contained, quilted-chrome stands in heavily trafficked business areas, and serve coffee and assorted breakfast items to sleepy commuters. Long before sunrise, Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi) drags his cart through the half-empty streets of Manhattan to his spot on a soon-to-be-bustling sidewalk. He arranges his donuts and bagels, fires up his propane tank and begins brewing coffee. Aside from the cash he pulls in peddling cheap porn DVDs on the side, the pushcart is Ahmad's sol...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins