His neighbors are a gallery of alcoholic lawyers, lovelorn epileptics and indigents. His younger brother Sullivan (Cameron Boyd) has been farmed out to relatives. His mother (Lisa Eichhorn) is fragile and work-worn, hospitalized with consumption. As tenants fall in arrears, they’re locked out by a sadistic bellhop (Joseph Chrest).Īaron’s father (Jeroen Krabbe) is a glib, threadbare huckster peddling unsellable glass candles, months behind in the rent and one step ahead of the car repossessors. Louis, taken over by the bank and slowly being converted into a bordello with dance hall annex. His hotel, the Avalon, is a deteriorating fleabag in 1933 St. Hotchner’s autobiographical 1972 novel-we see everything more clearly. He’s a mensch of 12, king of his shining little hill.Īs Soderbergh brilliantly re-creates Aaron’s world-the events of writer A.E. Aaron Kurlander, the boy protagonist of Steven Soderbergh’s heart-stirring new movie, “King of the Hill” (AMC Century 14), is the plucky, all-around kid many of us would like to have been: precocious writer, academic star, dead-eye marble champ, devoted son and brother, dauntless neighborhood explorer.
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