"When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top."


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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Budget
$8.0M
$8,000,000
Worldwide Gross
$1.2M
$1,214,231
Net Profit
$6.8M
$-6,785,769
Return on Investment
-85%
0.2x budget







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