The Motel(2005)

movie - first aired/released 2005-01-24 - 75 min - audience 6.3

Drama, Comedy

Directed by Michael Kang

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.