King of the Hill1993
When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.
Director
Screenplay
Steven Soderbergh
Actors
Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern, Adrien Brody, Joe Chrest, Kristin Griffith, Katherine Heigl, John Durbin, Lauryn Hill, Remak Ramsay, Ron Vawter
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 103 Minutes
Genres
About the film
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.
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Ratings
6.8tmdb
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