Released:
1993-08-20

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.

Director:
Steven Soderbergh

Runtime:
1h 43min

Genre:
Drama, History

• Cast:
• 
  Jesse Bradford
  as
  Aaron Kurlander
• 
  Jeroen Krabbé
  as
  Mr. Kurlander
• 
  Lisa Eichhorn
  as
  Mrs. Kurlander
• 
  Karen Allen
  as
  Miss Mathey
• 
  Spalding Gray
  as
  Mr. Mungo