King of the Hill
6.8
August 1993
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.
Runtime:
1 hour 43 minutes
Status:
Released
Original Language:
en
Budget:
$8,000,000.00
Revenue:
$1,214,231.00
Director:
Steven Soderbergh