The Motel

Year: 2005

Actors: Sung Kang, Tim Bennett, Samantha Futerman, Zeke Hawkins

Duration: 75 min

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.—anonymous

Genre: Action   Comedy   Drama