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  1. 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 enters a sanatorium with tuberculosis and his younger brother is sent to live with an uncle.

  2. Aug 20, 1993 · King of the Hill: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen. A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.

  3. King of the Hill, about a struggling but resourceful preteen (Jesse Bradford) growing up amid the fear and poverty of the Great Depression, is director Steven Soderbergh’s only film to focus on the life of a child.

  4. Aaron (Jesse Bradford), a young boy living in St. Louis during the 1930s, has a deep attachment to his younger brother. After his father (Jeroen Krabbé) leaves them and his mother (Lisa Eichhorn ...

  5. 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.

  6. Apr 29, 2014 · King of the Hill works because largely because of Bradford's strength and Soderbergh's detail. Most of the film plays out in the hotel or on the streets just outside, where a fat, pig-eyed bully of a cop terrorizes the kids and rousts the hobos in the Hooverville camped out across the square.

  7. Sep 10, 1993 · Steven Soderbergh's "King of the Hill" is the story of a 12-year-old boy who is left on his own in St. Louis during the Great Depression, and not only survives but thrives, and learns a thing or two.