King of the Hill

King of the Hill

When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.
19931h 43minDrama MoviesEnglish
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.

WriterA. E. Hotchner
DirectorSteven Soderbergh
ActorJesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn
CountryUnited States of America
ProductionGramercy Pictures