Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
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.
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Michael Kang
Director, Writer
Ed Lin
Novel
Esther Shapiro
Executive Producer
Richard Alan Shapiro
Executive Producer
Eden J. Shapiro
Executive Producer
Miguel Arteta
Producer
Karin Chien
Producer
Matthew Greenfield
Producer
Gina Kwon
Producer
Lisa Leone
Director of Photography
Nathan Larson
Original Music Composer
David Leonard
Editor
Colleen Sharp
Editor
Sarah Beers
Costume Design
Ernesto Solo
Production Design
