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The Last Repair Shop( 2024)

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Overview

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. cast image

      Dana Atkinson

      Self

    2. cast image

      Duane Michaels

      Self

    3. cast image

      Paty Moreno

      Self

    4. cast image

      Steve Bagmanyan

      Self

    5. cast image

      Ken Burget

      Self - The Piano Tuner

    6. cast image

      Vincent Womack

      Self - L.A.U.S.D. Music Teacher Since 19987

    7. cast image

      Boris Karloff

      The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)

    8. cast image

      Tom Parker

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    9. cast image

      Elvis Presley

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Mar 22 2024
    This is quite an engaging documentary that introduces us to four specialist technicians who maintain some of the musical instruments that are provided free to pupils in the Los Angeles school system. Prefaced by a few words from each of the children who benefit from the violins, tubas, pianos and saxophones to name but a few, we then meet four of the people - from a variety of interesting, sometimes quite traumatic, backgrounds - as they show us just how meticulously they work to keep these instruments alive and useful. To be honest, I could have been doing with just a little more performance f...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • lgbt
    • documentary short