698 - King of the Hill (1993)

Random Acts of Cinema

Steven Soderbergh really surprised us with this 1993 coming-of-age story set on the mean streets of 1930s St. Louis. Because we had never heard of it. Hard to believe that this nostalgia-bomb was missed by the two 90s kid hosts of this podcast. Based on the memoirs A. E. Hotchner, the film stars Jesse Bradford as Aaron, left to fend for himself against an onslaught of petty cops, bullies, bellboys, repo men, and so on as poverty and illness scattered his family during the Great Depression. A surprising cast of all-stars and future stars round out this period drama.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Julien Duvivier’s Pépé le Moko (1937).