King of the Hill
When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.6.8
Plot
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.
Writer | A. E. Hotchner |
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Director | Steven Soderbergh |
Actor | Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn |
Country | United States of America |
Production | Gramercy Pictures |