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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.

Keywords:

Comedy, Drama, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Based-on-Book

Additional Information:

(1993) (USA) (3 Star)

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

Supporting Cast:

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

Directors:

Steven Soderbergh

Writers:

A.E. Hotchner
Steven Soderbergh

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