1993PG-13· 103 min
King of the Hill
When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.
Drama
6.8 / 10TMDB Score
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.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray
Tags
1930sagainst the oddsbased on bookbased on memoir or autobiographybellboybloodbrotherbrother brother relationshipcanarychild acting
