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The Motel

Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.

6.1

1h 15m

2005

“Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Michael Kang

DramaComedy

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Cast & Crew

Jeffrey Chyau

as Ernest

Sung Kang

Sung Kang

as Sam

Jade Wu

Jade Wu

as Ahma Chin

Samantha Futerman

Samantha Futerman

as Christine

Alexis Chang

as Katie

Stephen Chen

as Gung Gung

Conor J. White

as Roy

Jackson Budinger

as Jess

Clint Jordan

Clint Jordan

as Walter

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