King of the Hill

August. 20,1993      PG-13
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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
Adrien Brody as  Lester
Joe Chrest as  Ben
John McConnell as  Patrolman Burns
Amber Benson as  Ella McShane

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