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The reviews are in and they are great!
- The Boston Globe "Kang balances the uproariously comic with the profoundly sad, and the
two tones amplify each other with subtlety... Kang has made an "Asian -
American Pie," and it has the sting of truth."The New York Times "Perfectly observed portrait"
Los Angeles Times "A well-worn coming-of-age tale enlivened by pungent detail and a sharp visual sense."
Chicago Reader "Michael Kang captures the small triumphs of a boy becoming a man."
The Onion
"A firm grasp on the messy emotional terrain of adolescence"
Hollywood Reporter
"The filmmaker has also elicited sterling performances from the cast."
The Nation "The Motel is a quiet charmer: modest but precise in visual style, and always tactful about its characters. It never tells you more about them than you can figure out on your own."
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About "The Motel"
Puberty sucks, and nobody knows it better than 13-year-old Ernest Chin (Jeffrey Chyau). Stuck at his own familys hourly-rate motel, young Ernest divides his time between taking orders from his overbearing mom, tending to whatever miscreants the motel may attract and longing for the girl of his dreams, 15 year old Christine (MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA'S Samantha Futerman). When charismatic Sam Kim (BETTER LUCK TOMORROWs Sung Kang) checks into the motel, fatherless Ernest is taken under his wing and hustled toward manhood, for better or worse. From the producers of ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW and THE GOOD GIRL, comes an unflinching portrait of adolescence as heartfelt and authentic as it is hilarious.