King of the Hill

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.

Status: Released

Revenue: $1,214,231.00

Budget: $8,000,000.00

Release date: August 20, 1993

Countries of origin: United States of America,

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