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The Motel
“Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.”
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.
2005 6.3/10 community score 1h 15m Released
- Drama
- Comedy
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