Title: King of the Hill (King of the Hill)
Release Date: 1993-08-20
IMDB ID: tt0107322
Vote Average: 6.8 (168 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.
Cast: Jesse Bradford (Aaron Kurlander), Jeroen Krabbé (Mr. Kurlander), Lisa Eichhorn (Mrs. Kurlander), Karen Allen (Miss Mathey), Spalding Gray (Mr. Mungo), Elizabeth McGovern (Lydia),
Crew: Steven Soderbergh (Editor), Elliot Davis (Director of Photography), A. E. Hotchner (Novel), Gregory Jacobs (First Assistant Director), Allen Kupetsky (Second Assistant Director), Lynn K. D'Angona (Second Second Assistant Director),