King of the Hill (King of the Hill)

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

Release Date:	1993-08-20
Runtime:	103 min
Status:	Released
Genres:	Drama, History
Production:	Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions

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.