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Movie · 1993

King of the Hill

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

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Depression era Solitary coming of age Childhood precarity Family separation Hotel bound Historical realism

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Release
1993
Runtime
103 min

Synopsis

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.

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