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.

• DirectorSteven Soderbergh
• Release20 August 1993
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration1h 43m
• Budget$8,000,000
• Revenue$1,214,231
• Rate
  

  6.8
  156 reviews
• Productions

  Gramercy Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions