King of the Hill

"When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top."

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AI Analysis

"The performances are nuanced and deeply moving, elevating the material. This film is a 68% match for your taste."

Synopsis

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.