King of the Hill
When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.
3.4
Length103 mins
LanguageEnglish
Release Date1993-08-20
StatusReleased
Drama
History
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.