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.

The Motel is a 2005 drama comedy movie directed by Michael Kang, starring Samantha Futerman, Jade Wu, Sung Kang. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.6/10 from 1,475 votes and runs 1h 15m.