King of the Hill
"When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top."
Details
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.
Cast & Crew
- Cast:Jesse Bradford , Jeroen Krabbé , Lisa Eichhorn , Karen Allen , Spalding Gray , Elizabeth McGovern , Cameron Boyd , Adrien Brody
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Producer: John Hardy
