King of the Hill
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.
                                            
                                                            Released:  1993-08-20
                                                        
                                                        
                                                            Genre: 
                                                            
                                                                Drama