103m •
1993
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.
Gramercy Pictures • US
Wildwood Enterprises • US
Bona Fide Productions • US
Budget: $8000000
Revenue: $1214231
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4.1
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5.0
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7.8
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5.9
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5.7
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7.2
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6.1
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0
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0
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8.0
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7.1
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7.2
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5.8
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7.2
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6.1
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7.0
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7.2
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7.0
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