Film

Sling Blade

Name: Sling Blade
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Released: 1996
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black

1996 · 135 min · ★ 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.