The Motel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-01-24

Languages:

Cantonese, English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

75 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1222 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Kang

Genres:

Comedy Drama

Cast:

Jeffrey Chyau Sung Kang Jade Wu Samantha Futerman

Writer:

Michael Kang

Fullplot:

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.

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