King of the Hill

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Jesse Bradford Aaron Kurlander

Jeroen Krabbé Mr. Kurlander

Lisa Eichhorn Mrs. Kurlander

Karen Allen Miss Mathey

Spalding Gray Mr. Mungo