The Motel

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• Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Michael Kang
• Cast(s): Sung Kang, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman, Clint Jordan, Eleanor Hutchins See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 15min
• Music: Nathan Larson
• Award(s): Grand Jury Prize 2006 (Won)
  Independent Spirit 2007 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Outcome, Jay Kelly
• Story:
  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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