Summary
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.
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Aaron Kurlander
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Lisa Eichhorn
Mrs. Kurlander
Karen Allen
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Elizabeth McGovern
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Chris Samples
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Katherine Heigl
Christina Sebastian
John Durbin
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Craig Hawksley
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