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King of the Hill

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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Box Office

Budget: $8,000,000
Revenue: $1,214,231
ROI: -84.8%

Verdict: Flop

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Crew

Directors

> Steven Soderbergh (Director)
> Elliot Davis (Director of Photography)
> Gregory Jacobs (First Assistant Director)
> Allen Kupetsky (Second Assistant Director)
> Lynn K. D'Angona (Second Second Assistant Director)

Writers

> A. E. Hotchner (Novel)
> Steven Soderbergh (Screenplay)