King of the Hill

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

Genre: Drama, History

Stars: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern

Crew: Steven Soderbergh (Editor), Elliot Davis (Director of Photography), Steven Soderbergh (Director), A. E. Hotchner (Novel), Steven Soderbergh (Screenplay), Gregory Jacobs (First Assistant Director)

Country: United States of America

Language: English

Studio: Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions

Runtime: 103 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Aug 20, 1993

IMDb: 4.2

Keywords:hotel, great depression, canary, based on memoir or autobiography, tuberculosis, traveling salesman, marbles, elevator operator, bellboy, lock child, living alone, st. louis, against the odds, epileptic seizure, understanding, children home alone

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King of the Hill

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