The Motel (2005)

Director: Michael Kang

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

Jeffrey Chyau

Ernest

Sung Kang

Sam

Jade Wu

Ahma Chin

Samantha Futerman

Christine

Alexis Chang

Katie

Stephen Chen

Gung Gung

Conor J. White

Roy

Jackson Budinger

Jess

Clint Jordan

Walter

Eleanor Hutchins

Gina