The Motel

2005·Movie
1h 15min
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About

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.
Coming-of-AgeFamily DynamicsMotel LifeKorean AmericanFriendshipLonelinessNostalgiaIndependent Film

Crew

Directed by:
Michael Kang
Written by:
Michael Kang, Ed Lin
Produced by:
Susan Shopmaker, Miguel Arteta, Matthew Greenfield
Composed by:
Nathan Larson

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