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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Featuring: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Adrien Brody, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern, Amber Benson, Kristin Griffith, Katherine Heigl, Cameron Boyd, Joseph Chrest, Lauryn Hill
For his first Hollywood studio production, Steven Soderbergh (whose independent debut, sex, lies, and videotape, had won the Palme d’Or at Cannes a few years earlier) crafted this small jewel of a growing-up story. Set in St. Louis during the Great Depression, King of the Hill follows the daily struggles of a resourceful and imaginative adolescent who, after his younger brother is sent to live with a relative and his tubercular mother to a sanitarium, must survive on his own in a run-down hotel during his salesman father’s long business trips. This evocative period piece, faithfully adapted from the A. E. Hotchner memoir, is among the versatile Soderbergh’s most touching and surprising films.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
DVD
Discs:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 3 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Resolution:
1080p/24
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Video Essay, Feature Film, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- New interviews with Steven Soderbergh and source memoir author A. E. Hotchner
- Against Tyranny, a new video essay by :: kogonada exploring Soderbergh’s unique approach to narrative
- Trailer for King of the Hill
- The Underneath (1995), Soderbergh’s follow-up feature to King of the Hill, with an interview with the director
- Trailer for The Underneath
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Tonguette, a 1993 interview with Soderbergh, and an excerpt from Hotchner’s 1972 memoir
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