TMDb Rating
5.9/10
13 verified votes
The Motel (2005)
DramaComedy
75 min
"Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere."
Plot Summary
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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DramaComedyMichael KangJeffrey ChyauSung Kang2005
Director
Michael Kang
Top Cast
Jeffrey ChyauSung KangJade WuSamantha FutermanAlexis Chang
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