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King of the Hill (1993) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Aug 20, 1993
Budget $8,000,000
MPAA Rating
PG13
Running Time
1 hour, 49 minutes
Country USA
Studio Gramercy Pictures
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• King of the Hill
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Genre: Drama, Coming Of Age
Tagline: When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.
Plot: For Steven Soderbergh’s third feature film, the acclaimed director adapts A.E. Hotchner’s 1972 memoir. Set in 1933 St. Louis, KING OF THE HILL follows 12-year-old Aaron Kurlander (a magnetic Jesse Bradford), a bright, affable boy coming of age during the heart of the American depression. His financially troubled family consists of a salesman father (Jeroen Krabbe) who must leave home to search for employment, a chronically ill mother (Lisa Eichhorn), and a younger brother (Cameron Boyd) who has been sent away to live with relatives. Their home in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is the dank Empire Hotel, where Aaron befriends hotel guests and management, including Lester (Adrien Brody) and Mr. Munco (Spalding Gray). When Aaron's not at school--where he's an honor student and master marble player--he's at the hotel trying to cope with the familial and economic adversities that consume his world and keep his stomach growling. Eventually, the broken family is reunited when Mr. Kurlander secures a job as a clerk, but it is up to Aaron to forgive his father for abandonment if they're to become a family again. Soderbergh films KING OF THE HILL with colorful photography, adding optimism even when things are at their most hopeless.
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