Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.

Puberty sucks, and nobody knows it better than 13-year-old Ernest Chin (Jeffrey Chyau). As he watches guests come and go, Ernest finds himself forever stuck at his family's hourly-rate motel, where he 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, 15-year-old Christine (Samantha Futerman, Memoirs of a Geisha). When charismatic Sam Kim (Sung Kang, Better Luck Tomorrow) checks into the motel, fatherless Ernest is taken under his wing and hustled toward manhood, for better or worse.

The Motel is an honest portrait of adolescence as heartfelt and authentic as it is hilarious.