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The Motel

The Motel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 24, 2005

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

64%

Original Title

The Motel

Director

Michael Kang

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