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.
Stars: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern
Crew: Steven Soderbergh (Screenplay), A. E. Hotchner (Novel), Steven Soderbergh (Director), Steven Soderbergh (Editor), Elliot Davis (Director of Photography), Gregory Jacobs (First Assistant Director)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions
Runtime: 103 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Aug 20, 1993
IMDb: 4.202
