King of the Hill
United States • 1993 • 1h 43m
Director
#698Criterion Collection →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.
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.
Credits
Crew
DirectorSteven Soderbergh
WriterSteven Soderbergh
CinematographerElliot Davis
ComposerCliff Martinez
EditorSteven Soderbergh
ProducerBarbara Maltby, Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger