King of the Hill (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 29, 2021
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jesse Bradford & Karen Allen | |
Performer: | Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Joseph Chrest, Elizabeth McGovern, Spalding Gray, Katherine Heigl, Amber Benson, Lauryn Hill & Adrien Brody | |
Directed by | Steven Soderbergh | |
Edited by | Steven Soderbergh | |
Screenplay by | Steven Soderbergh | |
Composition by | Cliff Martinez | |
Director of Photography: | Elliot Davis |
Entertainment Reviews:
91%
TOMATOMETER
An almost perfect coming-of-age film, it's based on A.E. Hotchner's memoir of his life as a child during the Depression.
Wall Street Journal
...Warmth, wit and none of the usual overlay of nostalgia...
New York Times
...Loving use of period charm...
Sight and Sound
...[Soderbergh] has made his best film...
Chicago Sun-Times
...[Soderbergh] back on track... - Recommended
Premiere
...KING OF THE HILL has all the rich satisfactions of a fine novel....[A] densely detailed, superbly acted evocation of a resourceful boy's life...
Variety
...There are real feelings here, and decent performances...
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Product Description:
For Steven Soderbergh's third feature film, the acclaimed director adapts A.E. Hotchner's 1972 memoir. Set in 1933 St. Louis, KING OF THE HILL follows 12-year-old Aaron Kurlander (a magnetic Jesse Bradford), a bright, affable boy coming of age during the heart of the American depression. His financially troubled family consists of a salesman father (Jeroen Krabbe) who must leave home to search for employment, a chronically ill mother (Lisa Eichhorn), and a younger brother (Cameron Boyd) who has been sent away to live with relatives. Their home in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is the dank Empire Hotel, where Aaron befriends hotel guests and management, including Lester (Adrien Brody) and Mr. Munco (Spalding Gray). When Aaron's not at school--where he's an honor student and master marble player--he's at the hotel trying to cope with the familial and economic adversities that consume his world and keep his stomach growling. Eventually, the broken family is reunited when Mr. Kurlander secures a job as a clerk, but it is up to Aaron to forgive his father for abandonment if they're to become a family again. Soderbergh films KING OF THE HILL with colorful photography, adding optimism even when things are at their most hopeless.
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