Jesse Bradford as Aaron Kurlander; Jeroen Krabbé as Mr. Erich Kurlander; Lisa Eichhorn as Mrs. Kurlander; Karen Allen as Miss Mathey; Spalding Gray as Mr. Mungo in Room 310; Elizabeth McGovern as Lydia; Cameron Boyd as Sullivan Kurlander; Adrien Brody as Lester Silverstone; Joe Chrest as Ben; John McConnell as Patrolman Burns; Amber Benson as Ella McShane; Kristin Griffith as Mrs. McShane; Chris Samples as Billy Thompson; Peggy Freisen as Mrs. Thompson; Katherine Heigl as Christina Sebastian
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Elliot Davis
Language
English
Plot
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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