

“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.

Jesse Bradford
Aaron Kurlander
Lead
Jeroen Krabbé
Mr. Kurlander

Lisa Eichhorn
Mrs. Kurlander

Karen Allen
Miss Mathey

Spalding Gray
Mr. Mungo

Elizabeth McGovern
Lydia
Cameron Boyd
Sullivan

Adrien Brody
Lester
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Steven Soderbergh's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. King of the Hill is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”