Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Writer
- Steven Soderbergh
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $8,000,000
Cast
Adrien Brody
Cameron Boyd
Elizabeth McGovern
Jeroen Krabbé
Jesse Bradford
Joe Chrest
John McConnell
Karen Allen
Lisa Eichhorn
Spalding Gray
Keywords
against the odds
based on memoir or autobiography
bellboy
canary
children home alone
elevator operator
epileptic seizure
great depression
hotel
living alone
lock child
marbles
st. louis
traveling salesman
tuberculosis
understanding
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