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06/24/06
King of the Hill (1993)
96 %
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Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 23
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Karen Allen, Jeroen Krabbe, Lisa Eichhorn
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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10/06/07
This dark, poetic movie is intended as a tribute to the resilient spirit of many Jewish families that had fallen on hard times; Aaron and his survival instincts recall the young protagonists of Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
12/19/06
The film does a lovely job of juxtaposing the sharp contrasts in Aaron's life, and in marveling at the fact that he survives as buoyantly as he does.
08/30/04
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Affirms imagination as a character attribute that helps a resilient adolecent to survive in hard times.
08/20/02
King of the Hill proves that sex, lies, and videotape was no fluke. In fact, this movie is so good that it made me want to take another look at Kafka.
01/09/02
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