The Motel
Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
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1/24/2005Runtime
75 minsOverview
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.
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A quietly observant portrait of an awkward boy finding unexpected mentorship and belonging in the margins of a forgotten place. The film sits patiently with its characters, finding both humor and melancholy in their small, human moments.
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