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.
Camera | Elliot Davis | Director of Photography |
Editing | Steven Soderbergh | Editor |
Writing | Steven Soderbergh | Screenplay |
Directing | Steven Soderbergh | Director |
Writing | A. E. Hotchner | Novel |
Crew | John Lydon | Driver |
Sound | Cliff Martinez | Original Music Composer |
Production | Barbara Maltby | Producer |
Production | Ron Yerxa | Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Susan Lyall | Costume Design |
Art | Bill Rea | Art Direction |
Art | Claire Jenora Bowin | Set Decoration |
Production | John Hardy | Executive Producer |
Production | Albert Berger | Producer |
Art | Gary Frutkoff | Production Design |
Directing | Gregory Jacobs | First Assistant Director |
Directing | Allen Kupetsky | Second Assistant Director |
Directing | Lynn K. D'Angona | Second Second Assistant Director |
Editing | Alexandra Root | Dailies Manager |
Production | Deborah Aquila | Casting |
Costume & Make-Up | Laura Connolly | Hair Designer |
Costume & Make-Up | Susan Mills | Key Hair Stylist |
Costume & Make-Up | Jeaneen Muckerman | Assistant Hairstylist |
Costume & Make-Up | Elaine L. Offers | Makeup Supervisor |
Costume & Make-Up | Ann Pala | Assistant Makeup Artist |
Production | Rick Cowan | Unit Manager |
Production | Georgia Kacandes | Unit Production Manager |
Sound | Larry Blake | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Sound | Larry Blake | Supervising Sound Editor |
Sound | Aaron Glascock | Assistant Sound Editor |
Camera | David Jensen | Grip |