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.
Release Date | August 20, 1993 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | King of the Hill | |
Runtime | 1h 43min | |
Budget | $8,000,000 | |
Revenue | $1,214,231 | |
Language | English | |
Original Language | English | |
Production Countries | United States of America | |
Production Companies | Gramercy PicturesWildwood EnterprisesBona Fide Productions |