The Motel

The Motel (2005) on 123movies: drama and comedy film starring Jeffrey Chyau and Sung Kang. Plot summary, full cast and release details. 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.