The Motel
2005 · 1h 15m · Comedy, Drama · United States of America
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.
Written & directed by
Michael KangBased on the novel by
Ed Lin6.1Smart score
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