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The Motel

2005
Directed byMichael Kang
1h 15m

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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Jeffrey ChyauErnestSung KangSamJade Wu
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DramaComedy
STATUSReleased
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6.1

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