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.
Cast
Jeffrey Chyau
Ernest
Sung Kang
Sam
Jade Wu
Ahma Chin
Samantha Futerman
Christine
Alexis Chang
Katie
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
Cheryl Campbell
Naked Woman
Crew
Michael Kang
Director, Writer
Ed Lin
Novel
David Leonard
Editor
Colleen Sharp
Editor
Lisa Leone
Director of Photography
Esther Shapiro
Executive Producer
Eden J. Shapiro
Executive Producer
Richard Alan Shapiro
Executive Producer
George Huey
Co-Executive Producer
Miguel Arteta
Producer
Gina Kwon
Producer
Karin Chien
Producer
Matthew Greenfield
Producer
Ernesto Solo
Production Design
Susan Shopmaker
Casting
Sarah Beers
Costume Design
Nathan Larson
Original Music Composer
Shane Valentino
Art Direction
