King of the Hill

Synopsis

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.

Watch the trailer

When & where

Streaming TBA

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Jesse Bradford
  as Aaron Kurlander
• 
  Jeroen Krabbé
  as Mr. Kurlander
• 
  Lisa Eichhorn
  as Mrs. Kurlander
• 
  Karen Allen
  as Miss Mathey
• 
  Spalding Gray
  as Mr. Mungo
• 
  Elizabeth McGovern
  as Lydia

If you’re into this…