King of the Hill
"When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top."
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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Details
| Status: | Released |
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| Release Date: | 1993-08-20 |
| Budget: | $8,000,000 |
| Revenue: | $1,214,231 |
| Production: | Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions |
