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.
Unfortunately the movie The Motel is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Michael Kang | Director |
| Writing | Michael Kang | Writer |
| Writing | Ed Lin | Novel |
| Production | Miguel Arteta | Producer |
| Art | Shane Valentino | Art Direction |
| Production | Eden J. Shapiro | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Colleen Sharp | Editor |
| Production | George Huey | Co-Executive Producer |
| Editing | David Leonard | Editor |
| Production | Richard Alan Shapiro | Executive Producer |
| Production | Susan Shopmaker | Casting |
| Production | Karin Chien | Producer |
| Production | Matthew Greenfield | Producer |
| Production | Gina Kwon | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sarah Beers | Costume Design |
| Production | Esther Shapiro | Executive Producer |
| Art | Ernesto Solo | Production Design |
| Sound | Nathan Larson | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Lisa Leone | Director of Photography |
