The Motel (2005)
Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
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.
- Release date
- January 24, 2005
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Jeffrey Chyau as Ernest
- Sung Kang as Sam
- Jade Wu as Ahma Chin
- Samantha Futerman as Christine
- Alexis Chang as Katie
- Stephen Chen as Gung Gung
- Conor J. White as Roy
- Jackson Budinger as Jess
- Clint Jordan as Walter
- Eleanor Hutchins as Gina
Crew
- Michael Kang · Director
- Michael Kang · Writer
- Ed Lin · Writer
- Miguel Arteta · Producer
- Karin Chien · Producer
- Matthew Greenfield · Producer
- Gina Kwon · Producer
- Nathan Larson · Composer
- Lisa Leone · Cinematographer
- David Leonard · Editor
- Colleen Sharp · Editor
- Susan Shopmaker · Casting director
- Ernesto Solo · Production designer