King of the Hill(1993)

movie - first aired/released 1993-08-20 - 103 min - audience 6.8

Drama, History

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

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.