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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King of the Hill was released in 1993 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 9 reviews, giving King of the Hill (1993) an average rating of 76%.
With a score of 76%, King of the Hill is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1993, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1993 with similar scores include films like A Perfect World, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and And the Band Played On.
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