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King of the Hill is a 1993 American drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. It is the second he directed from his own screenplay following his 1989 Palme d'Or-winning film Sex, Lies, and Videotape. It too was nominated for the Palme d'Or, at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
King of the Hill PG-13 1993 1h 42m Drama List 91% Tomatometer 33 Reviews 83% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Aaron (Jesse Bradford), a young boy living in St. Louis during the 1930s, has a deep ...
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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.
King of the Hill works because largely because of Bradford's strength and Soderbergh's detail. Most of the film plays out in the hotel or on the streets just outside, where a fat, pig-eyed bully of a cop terrorizes the kids and rousts the hobos in the Hooverville camped out across the square.
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.
Aug 20, 1993 · 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.
