The Motel

IMDb link: 0436607
IMDb rating: 6.6 (1,473 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Sung Kang, Samantha Futerman, Michael Kang
Cast: Jeffrey Chyau, Jade Wu and others

Release date: 24 Jan 2005
Release year: 2005
Runtime: 75 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: chinese american, coming of age, korean american, male full frontal nudity, friendship between men, male nudity, puberty, crush, racism, writing contest

Plot:

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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