King of the Hill

"When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top."

Aug 20 1993 PG-13 1h 43m

Drama, History

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.

Plot

A boy whose mother is forced into a sanitarium and father gets a job as a traveling salesman. The boy fends for himself in a seedy SRO hotel.

Written by

A.E. Hotchner, Steven Soderbergh

Directed by

Steven Soderbergh

Cast

Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Wildwood Enterprises, Gramercy Pictures, Bona Fide Productions

Languages

English

Awards

8 nominations total

Trailers

King Of The Hill Trailer 1993

King of the Hill (1993) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Scores

# of Votes

9,030

Average Rating

7.3 out of 10

Metascore

Popularity

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