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King of the Hill (1993)

King of the Hill (1993)

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

Release Date: 1993, August 20
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
Countries: United States of America
Production: Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions, Bona Fide Productions
Cast: Karen Allen, Adrien Brody, John McConnell, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Chrest, David Jensen, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Jesse Bradford, Ron Vawter, Joseph Moynihan, Katherine Heigl

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.

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