King of the Hill (1993)
6.8
/10 By 150 Votes
Overview : 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.
Release Date : August 20, 1993
Runtime : 103m
Companies : Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions
Countries : United States of America
Keywords : hotel, great depression, canary, based on memoir or autobiography, tuberculosis, traveling salesman, marbles, elevator operator, bellboy, lock child, living alone, st. louis, against the odds, epileptic seizure, understanding, children home alone
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