Alexis Chang,
Jade Wu,
Jeffrey Chyau,
Samantha Futerman,
Stephen Chen
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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...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 30, 2007
Stats: 253 reviews
Competent low-key drama. Very convincin provincial minority portrayal. Poor kid - how's he gonna grow up now after actin in this movie? Favourite line - "Your dick is hard. That means you love me."
Hilarious and touching, in the vein of Napoleon Dynamite but more human. I really enjoyed this movie and got to meet the producer at a Q&A, she seems pretty brilliant. Chubby Chinese kid coping with emerging sexuality at his family's run-dwon motel.
Hilarious low-budget film about a pudgy chinese boy and his struggle with his ethnicity and adolescense.
I really like this movie but the fight with the girl in the car & then fighting with the guy living out of the hotel at the end spoiled everything for me
Pretty short and low-budget, but a decent indie flick about a young chinese boy who works with his family at a suburban motel (hence the title). It's a very character-driven story and quite funny in parts. Sadly though, it got kind of dull after a while, as there wasn't much goin...( read more)
I remember thinking about renting this movie ages ago, and I finally decided to check it out. Anyways it wasn't that good, so it's a rental at most.
Funny movie.....a lot of Korean cultured jokes! One of my favorite movies now!
I know a Sam Kim... daym... the little tears in the end is just... perfect...
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