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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   955 votes
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Director:
Michael Kang
Writer:
Michael Kang (writer)
Contact:
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Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
Plot:
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Miguel Arteta to helm 'Youth in Revolt'
 (From ioncinema. 7 February 2008)

2007 Independent Spirit Awards Noms
 (From ioncinema. 29 November 2006)

User Comments:
Great Combinations of Characters and Story more (9 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Jeffrey Chyau ... Ernest

Sung Kang ... Sam

Jade Wu ... Ahma Chin

Samantha Futerman ... Christine
Alexis Chang ... Katie (as Alexis Kapp Chang)
Stephen Chen ... Gung Gung

Conor J. White ... Roy
Jackson Budinger ... Jess

Clint Jordan ... Walter

Eleanor Hutchins ... Gina
Ron Domingo ... Hank

Jackie Nova ... Shakira
Jake Holbrook ... Toby
Ian Boyd ... Jimmy

Glen Brackenridge ... Cheap Ass Naked Man
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Additional Details

Runtime:
75 min
Country:
USA
Language:
Cantonese | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

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Quotes:
Sam: I know what you were thinking. I hope this guy speaks english.
Ernest: No, You walk like you speak english.
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Referenced in The Motel: Behind the Scenes (2007) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Part of the Nation more

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13 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
Great Combinations of Characters and Story, 16 May 2006
10/10
Author: Katsuyuki Ueno (imdb-5190) from Los Angeles, United States

I've seen it at the VC Film Fest 2006 - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which this movie also won the best narrative feature film jury prize.

This movie doesn't have named actors. HOWEVER, if you have ever bought a adult magazine and hid it under the bed when you are 12, or you had to dealt with those boys...., this is the movie that makes you laugh and cry.

The excellent choice of dialog. And Jeffrey Chyau who plays the main character, Ernest, is not a professional actors. According to the director, Michael Kang, he literary found him on the street. According to Kang, a quiet unconfident boy never come to the audition. His 6 months search of Earnest definitely paid off in the movie. Kang was able to create good chemistry between Chyau and Sung Kang, who plays Sam.

If you like fast pacing movie, this movie may not fit you. However, if you would like to look back your "realistic" childhood, this is the movie to watch, but you have to see it in the theater.

When you leave the movie theater, I assure you will feel like being a grown-up.

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