The Film: An underrated and overlooked period drama. Though it received mostly positive reviews, King Of The Hill was too soft and too sentimental to jolt Soderbergh out of his post-Kafka downwards spin.

A shame, because it's beautifully made. There's a strong lead turn from 14 year-old Jesse Bradford as the home alone Depression-era kid making out for himself in a crowded tenement building, and an eye-catching early show from Adrien Brody.

Soderbergh Speaks: “King Of The Hill was hard work. I staged it and shot more film than I had ever before, with a script that was unusually long. The film had a more open structure than the first two, and I constantly had to solve problems. The shooting was exhausting because I really had nobody to back me up, although I can't say there were no pressures on me.”