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The Motel(2005)
Status: Released
Date: 2005-01-24
59%
13 Votes
Time: 1h 15m
Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
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.
Languages: Mandarin, English.
Countries:
United States of America
Movie: The Motel
Top 10 Billed Cast
Sung Kang
Sam
Jade Wu
Ahma Chin
Samantha Futerman
Christine
Clint Jordan
Walter
Eleanor Hutchins
Gina
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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.
Release Date
2005-01-24
Average
5.9
Rating:
3.0 startsTagline
Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
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Languages:
普通话English
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