The Motel (2005)

6.3/10 • 75 min • Drama Comedy

Overview

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.

Cast

Sung Kang

Sam

Jade Wu

Ahma Chin

Samantha Futerman

Christine

Clint Jordan

Walter

Eleanor Hutchins

Gina

Ron Domingo

Hank

Jackie Nova

Shakira

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