Trailer
Plot summary
Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan are brothers in Reno in 1990 who live out of a motel and get by on whatever work they can find. They drink a great deal and they make up stories to get away from lives that look hopeless to them, and their invented yarns are shown in animated sequences. Jerry Lee's sometime girlfriend is Polly Flynn. When Jerry Lee hits a child with a car and keeps driving, the accident becomes a hit-and-run. The two of them gather up what they own and quit the city.
Cast
- Andrew Leeas Young Frank
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Motel Life (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Polskys first cast Emile Hirsch but were unsure Stephen Dorff fit the role of Jerry Lee. Dorff convinced them by agreeing to test with Hirsch, whom he had met years before at a party with the premonition: "I think we're going to play brothers one day."
