
King of the Hill
A tender, bittersweet coming-of-age story that balances hardship with resilience, told through a child's eyes with warmth and honesty.
- Tagline
- When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.
- Overview
- 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.











