"When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top.". 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.

Movie rating: 7.3 / 10 (9015)

Directed by: A.E. Hotchner - Steven Soderbergh

Writer credits: A.E. Hotchner - A.E. Hotchner - Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Jesse Bradford - Jeroen Krabbé - Lisa Eichhorn - Karen Allen - Spalding Gray

AKA: O Inventor das Ilusões - El rey de la colina - O Rei do Bairro, A hegyek ura

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