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The Motel

The Motel

Release: 2005-01-24 ·Runtime: 75m ·★ 5.9
Drama Comedy

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.

Production Countries

United States of America