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The Motel

Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.

2005★ 6.3 · 151h 15mDramaComedy

Overview

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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Cast

Sung Kang
as Sam

Clint Jordan
as Walter

Eleanor Hutchins
as Gina

Samantha Futerman
as Christine

Jade Wu
as Ahma Chin

Conor J. White
as Roy

Ron Domingo
as Hank

Jackie Nova
as Shakira

Stephen Chen
as Gung Gung

Jackson Budinger
as Jess

Jeffrey Chyau
as Ernest

Alexis Chang
as Katie

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Release date: 2005-01-24

Runtime: 1h 15m

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DramaComedy

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