Movie #3072 "King of the Hill" (Netflix DVD) I saw this in the movie theater quite a while ago, and it was in my Netflix DVD Queue because I wanted to see it again, so I got it before they take the DVD section of netflix away. And I'm glad I did. It's a really good film with a very strong lead from a young kid at the time, Jesse Bradford -- who I'm happy to note has gone on to bigger and better things, but this is an amazing "win" right out of the gate for him because he truly IS this film. Soderbergh is at his best, too, in this one --- it truly shows a family struggling during the Depression-era in the midwest, and there's one single shot in the film that was so good I had remembered it from the first showing --- the boy is so poor and so hungry, that he cuts pictures out of a magazine he finds in the street and puts them on a plate and eats the pictures. Oh my, it is so so powerful. If you get a chance to see this one, it is good and I recommend it -- but it is a tough one to find, which is why I made sure i got the chance to watch it before netflix shuts down their DVD dispensing. I'd give this a 4 out of 5.
"KING OF THE HILL" 1993 PG-13 1 hour and 43 minutes
A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: A. E. Hotchner, Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbe, Lisa Eichhorn
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