King of the Hill
Summary
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.
~ When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.Steven Soderbergh
Director
A. E. Hotchner
Novel
StatusReleased: 32 years ago
August 20, 1993
LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish
Budget$8.0M
Revenue$1.2M
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