King of the Hill

• Movie

  Type

• 1993

  Year

• 1h 43m

  Runtime

• ★ 6.9

  Rating

• Drama

  Genre

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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Cast

Jesse Bradford

Aaron Kurlander

Jeroen Krabbé

Mr. Kurlander

Lisa Eichhorn

Mrs. Kurlander

Karen Allen

Miss Mathey

Spalding Gray

Mr. Mungo

Elizabeth McGovern

Lydia

Adrien Brody

Lester

Katherine Heigl

Christina Sebastian

Amber Benson

Ella

Lauryn Hill

Elevator Operator

David Jensen

Front Desk Clerk

Joseph Moynihan

Woodbine Waiter