Production Companies: Gramercy Pictures , Wildwood Enterprises , Bona Fide Productions .
Overview: 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.
, Wildwood Enterprises 
, Bona Fide Productions 
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