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.
Release Date : Aug 20, 1993
Production Company : Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions
Production Countries : United States of America
Original Language : English
Casts : Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern, Cameron Boyd, Adrien Brody, Joe Chrest, John McConnell, Amber Benson
Director :
Status : Released
Budget : 8000000
Revenue : 1214231
