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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Dwight Yoakam, Kathy Sue Brown, Christine Renee Ward, John Ritter, Sarah Boss, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Hampton, Wendell Rafferty, Lucas Black, Brent Briscoe, Vic Chesnutt, James Hampton ...MORE

Cast: Dwight Yoakam, Kathy Sue Brown, Christine Renee Ward, John Ritter, Sarah Boss, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Hampton, Wendell Rafferty, Lucas Black, Brent Briscoe, Vic Chesnutt, James Hampton, Mickey Jones, Rick Dial, Natalie Canerday, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Duvall, J. T. Walsh ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Melodrama, Indie

Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. It tells the story of a mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old, and the friendship he develops with a young boy. In addition to Thornton, it stars Dwight Yoakam, J. T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, and Robert Duvall. The movie was adapted by Thornton from his short film and previous... MORE

Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. It tells the story of a mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old, and the friendship he develops with a young boy. In addition to Thornton, it stars Dwight Yoakam, J. T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, and Robert Duvall. The movie was adapted by Thornton from his short film and previous screenplay, Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade. Sling Blade proved to be a sleeper hit, launching Thornton into stardom. It won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Thornton was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The music for the soundtrack was provided by French Canadian artist/producer Daniel Lanois. Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is a mentally disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly "institutionalized," Karl is deemed fit to be released into LESS