Film

The Motel

Name: The Motel
Director: Michael Kang
Released: 2005
Rating: 6
Cast: Jeffrey Chyau, Sung Kang, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman, Alexis Chang

2005 · 75 min · ★ 6 · Dir. Michael Kang

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.