The Motel
2005, Film, 75 min, Comedy, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 64
Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.
Directed by Michael Kang
Cast
- Jeffrey Chyau as Ernest
- Sung Kang as Sam
- Jade Wu as Ahma Chin
- Samantha Futerman as Christine
- Alexis Chang as Katie
- Stephen Chen as Gung Gung
- Conor J. White as Roy
- Jackson Budinger as Jess
- Clint Jordan as Walter
- Eleanor Hutchins as Gina
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