 
                                    King of the Hill
    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.
                Released:  1993-08-20
            
            
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                    Drama
                
            
            
         
            
                 
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
        