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The Motel (2005)
Directed by Michael Kang
“Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.”
Drama, Comedy · 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.
Cast
Sung Kang
Jade Wu
Samantha Futerman
Clint Jordan
Eleanor Hutchins
Ron Domingo
Jackie Nova
Crew
- Director
- Michael Kang
- Writer
- Michael Kang
- Novel
- Ed Lin
- Director of Photography
- Lisa Leone
- Original Music Composer
- Nathan Larson
- Editor
- David Leonard, Colleen Sharp
- Producer
- Miguel Arteta, Gina Kwon, Karin Chien, Matthew Greenfield
Details
- Release date
- 2005-01-24
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, English
- Countries
- United States of America