

King of the Hill
When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $8M
- Box office
- $1.2M
- Language
- English
- hotel
- great depression
- canary
- based on memoir or autobiography
- bellhop
- tuberculosis
- traveling salesman
- marbles
- elevator operator
- lock child
- living alone
- st. louis
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Premiere(New York City, New York)20 Jul 1993
- TheatricalPG-1320 Aug 1993
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival19 May 1993
- Theatrical6 Oct 1993
GermanyDE
- Physical6genauer Veröffentlichungstag unbekannt.1 May 1994
TürkiyeTR
- Theatrical1 Jul 1994
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King of the Hill was released on 20 August 1993.
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