King of The Hill (1993)

Written by A.E. Hotchner, Steven Soderbergh

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1993

Rating: 12 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Drama set in Depression-era St Louis, in which a young boy is forced to become self-reliant after his family fragments. The lad is left to fend for himself in a hotel after his salesman father accepts a faraway job and his ailing mother is admitted to a sanatorium. The streetwise 12-year-old soon learns to live off his wits, conning money out of the other hotel guests. Based on the memoirs of A E Hotchner

Depression era movie. The protagonist is a little boy who's mother is forced into a sanitarium and who's father gets a traveling salesman job. The boy fends for himself in a seedy SRO hotel. The focus is on the boy's relationships with others and his struggle to survive.

Cast

	Jesse Bradford		Aaron Kurlander
	Jeroen Krabbé		Mr. Erich Kurlander
	Lisa Eichhorn		Mrs. Kurlander
	Karen Allen		Miss Mathey Aaron's Teacher
	Spalding Gray		Mr. Mungo in Room 310
	Elizabeth McGovern		Lydia Prostitute
	Cameron Boyd		Sullivan Kurlander
	Adrien Brody		Lester Silverstone
	Joe Chrest		Ben Hotel Porter
	John McConnell		Patrolman 'Big Butt' Burns
	Amber Benson		Ella McShane
	Kristin Griffith		Mrs. McShane
	Chris Samples		Aaron's Rich Friend
	Peggy Freisen		Mrs. Thompson
	Katherine Heigl		Christina Sebastian