The Motel

Puberty sucks and nobody knows it better than 13-year-old Ernest Chin. Stuck at his family’s hourly-rate motel, Ernest divides his time between taking orders from his overbearing mom, cleaning up after whatever miscreants the motel may attract, and longing for the girl of his dreams—the girl working at the Chinese restaurant across the street. When charismatic, recently-divorced Sam Kim checks into the motel, fatherless Ernest is taken under his wing and hustled toward manhood, for better or worse.