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The Motel

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Comedy, Drama
Release Date:June 28, 2006
Running time:76 minutes
Cast:Jeffrey Chyau, Sung Kang, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman, Stephen Chen
Director:Michael Kang
Producer:Miguel Arteta, Karin Chien, Matthew Greenfield, Gina Kwon
Writer:Michael Kang
Distributor:Palm Pictures

Description: 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 American man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.

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