The story of Eloise, a city child who lives in the Plaza Hotel. Includes a scrapbook with photos, drawings, and the story Kay Thompson and how Eloise came to be written.

Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was anengineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...

Mia Tang's sixth grade year complicated by a hard-to-please teacher, financial setbacks at her parents' motel, and a looming immigration law that threatens to derail her entire life.

A reluctant mother to four young geese, grumpy Bruce the bear loses his temper when he migrates home in the spring only to discover that mice have converted his den into a hotel.

It's the summer of 1989. Nine-year-old Ted Henley and his father John are the proprietors of The Mtn. Vista Motel, a crumbling resort buried in the mountains of the American West. Since Ted's mother left, John has drifted into despondency, becoming a living ghost, haunting the motel, leaving Ted to fend for himself. In this isolation, unchecked by the bounds of parenting, Ted's darker impulses begin to manifest.

Psycho II: After years of treatment at a mental institution for th ecriminally insane, Norman Bates still can't quite elude the demands of "Mother." Psycho III: A failed nun and a sleazy musician find the desert motel Norman Bates runs in memory of his mother. Psycho IV: When Norman Bates is drawn to a late night radio show where he shares his views on the topic of matricide--he relives his trials as a young boy living with his widowed schizophrenic...

Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six year old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World. Language throughout, disturbing behavior, sexual references and some drug material.

When Olive and her adopted siblings spend the summer with their estranged grandmother at her creepy hotel, they stumble upon a secret door that holds a portal to distant magical worlds filled with space pirates, wizards, and a cotton-candied kingdom.

Agnes has finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, who has recently been released from state prison. Agnes is a lonely waitress with a tragic past who moves into a sleazy, run-down Oklahoma motel room with her lesbian co-worker R.C. She, in turn, introduces Agnes to Gulf War veteran, Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don't always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic...

David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. As luck would have it, they come across a motel. There is something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. The set appears to be filmed in the very same room David and Amy are occupying. They come to realize that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras filming their every...