Sling Blade
1996 · ★ 7.5 · Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
A simple man. A difficult choice.
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
- Released
- 1996-08-30
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Language
- EN
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $34.1M
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Billy Bob Thornton
Karl Childers
Dwight Yoakam
Doyle Hargraves
J.T. Walsh
Charles Bushman
John Ritter
Vaughan Cunningham
Lucas Black
Frank Wheatley
Robert Duvall
Karl's Father
Jim Jarmusch
Frostee Cream Boy
Rick Dial
Bill Cox
Mickey Jones
Monty Johnson
Brent Briscoe
Scooter Hodges
Christine Renee Ward
Melinda
James Hampton
Jerry Woolridge
