King of the Hill (1993)
Ratings:
6.8 (TMDb)
Released:
1993-08-20
Runtime:
1h 43m
Genres:
Drama, History
Countries:
United States of America
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Actors:
Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern, Cameron Boyd, Adrien Brody
Synopsis
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.