The read
It runs a compact 1h 15m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Metacritic70/100
15 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael KangDirector
- Michael KangWriter
- Nathan LarsonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jeffrey ChyauErnest
- Sung KangSam
- Jade WuAhma Chin
- Samantha FutermanChristine
- Alexis ChangKatie
- Stephen ChenGung Gung
- Conor J. WhiteRoy
- Jackson BudingerJess
- Clint JordanWalter
- Eleanor HutchinsGina
- Ron DomingoHank
- Jackie NovaShakira