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Aug 20, 1993 · King of the Hill: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen. A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.
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- Drama, History
- Steven Soderbergh
- 1993-08-20
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 enters a sanatorium with tuberculosis and his younger brother is sent to live with an uncle.
King of the Hill, about a struggling but resourceful preteen (Jesse Bradford) growing up amid the fear and poverty of the Great Depression, is director Steven Soderbergh’s only film to focus on the life of a child.
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Sep 10, 1993 · Steven Soderbergh's "King of the Hill" is the story of a 12-year-old boy who is left on his own in St. Louis during the Great Depression, and not only survives but thrives, and learns a thing or two.
King of the Hill. Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh creates one of the most vivid depictions of the Depression ever captured on film in this poignant story of a 12-year old St. Louis boy (Jesse Bradford) who must fend for himself when his mother is sent to a sanitarium and his father leaves to work as a traveling salesman.
King of the Hill. Aaron (Jesse Bradford), a young boy living in St. Louis during the 1930s, has a deep attachment to his younger brother. After his father (Jeroen Krabbé) leaves them and...
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- Drama
- PG-13
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Synopsis. St. Louis, Missouri. 1933. At the height of the Great Depression, eighth grade student Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) presents a writing assignment about his hero, pilot Charles Lindbergh who flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.