King of the Hill

1993

English

7.3

♡ 19

91%

84%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Steven Soderbergh Director

Amber Benson as Ella McShane

Adrien Brody as Lester

Elizabeth McGovern as Lydia

Karen Allen as Miss Mathey

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.