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The Motel
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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“Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.”
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- Jan 24, 2005
- 1h 15m
- Mandarin
- Michael Kang
- Michael Kang, Ed Lin
- Released
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