King of the Hill

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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  Jesse Bradford

  Aaron Kurlander
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  Jeroen Krabbé

  Mr. Kurlander
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  Lisa Eichhorn

  Mrs. Kurlander
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  Karen Allen

  Miss Mathey
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  Spalding Gray

  Mr. Mungo
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  Elizabeth McGovern

  Lydia
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  Adrien Brody

  Lester
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  Joe Chrest

  Ben
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  John McConnell

  Patrolman Burns
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  Amber Benson

  Ella McShane