The Motel

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Audience Member Interesting coming of age tale about a chubby Chinese-American boy. His single tiger mother and grandpa own a motel, he does the housekeeping. He finds a sort of father figure in Kang. It varies between funny and tragic. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member On odd duck movie for certain. Basically, an Asian kid is growing up at a hotel where his family owns/works the hotel. It's just a nice, slow story about day-to-day life? The kid never does much but some of it is funny and some weird. I suppose it does escalate toward something but even that is fairly small. I didn't like it really as I watched it, but trying to think back several weeks later, I can at least appreciate that it was different. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member There's something special hidden in this odd-ball dramaedy but the film doesn't work hard enough at capitalizing on it and leaves you with a heartfelt but meandering story. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member A different type of coming of age story features a young Chinese boy who is pushed into depression by his mother while he works in a seemingly dead end motel business. Very charming. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member The story and the writing are of good quality. A story about this Asian American kid whose family runs this shady motel where prostitutes come and how he comes of age when this drunkard befriends him? Pretty damn good premise. It made for an interesting idea. I think Kang took the idea and stretched it as far as he could. Watching the movie and thinking about the premise again, I don't think it could've been much better. So maybe it was the premise itself that was lacking. Something just felt missing. (cont: http://somefilmsareok.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/the-motel-2005-film-review/ ) Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I expected a cute, quirky indie film. What I got was something depressing that left me wondering why I didn't shut it off 20 minutes in. There's some good acting, but nothing else to back it up and the overall feel of the movie is just uncomfortable. I wasn't entertained and there's really not any redeeming quality... just a portrait of someone with a crappy life. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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