Flixtheatre

King of the Hill

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

1993 103 min 6.8

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release Date: 1993-08-20
Budget: $8,000,000
Revenue: $1,214,231
Production: Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions