King of the Hill

1993 6.8 (156 votes) 1h 43m

Genres

Drama History

Production Companies

Gramercy Pictures
Wildwood Enterprises
Bona Fide Productions

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.