The Motel
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- Synopsis
- Writer-director Michael Kang makes his feature debut with the coming-of-age comedy, The Motel. Newcomer Jeffrey Chyau stars as Ernest Chin, a chubby 13 year-old Chinese-American boy whose mother (Jade Wu) runs a sleazy motel in upstate New York....
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- Starring
- Jeffrey Chyau, Kang Sung, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman, Stephen Chen
- Director(s)
- Michael Kang
- Distributor(s)
- Palm Pictures
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 76 min.
Critic Reviews
Like the best independent films, The Motel realizes that life is made up of minor pleasures and tiny epiphanies, not sweeping character arcs or big dramatic moments.Read the full review
Michael Kang's small, perfectly observed portrait of Ernest Chin (Jeffrey Chyau), a Chinese-American boy who lives and works in a dingy downscale motel operated by his mother, captures the glum desperation of inhabiting the biological limbo of early adolescence.Read the full review
Kang balances the uproariously comic with the profoundly sad, and the two tones amplify each other with subtlety.Read the full review
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