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.
- Worldwide
- $1M
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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 & Release
King of the Hill returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $8M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $1M
- Release date
- Aug 20, 1993
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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