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Sling Blade: Directed by Billy Bob Thornton. With Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter. Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
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Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank, who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank's house with his mother Linda, who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man.
Karl : I aim to kill you with it. Karl : Just 'cause I ain't gonna be around no more, maybe, don't mean that I don't care for you. Frank : I care 'bout you too, but you'll be around. Don't say that. Karl : Doesn't matter where I was to be. We'll always be friends.
"Sling Blade" is everything most movie-goers and critics have said it is; a warm, honest story about a simple backwards boy who has just been released from the state hospital after serving around thirty years for murder.
Sling Blade: Directed by Billy Bob Thornton. With Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter. Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
Billy Bob Thornton. Actor: Sling Blade. Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased).
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Sling Blade. Edit. Billy Wilder once told Billy Bob Thornton that he was "too ugly" to be an actor, and that he should write a screenplay for himself, where he could exploit his "less than perfect" features.
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade: Directed by George Hickenlooper. With Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J.T. Walsh, Jefferson Mays. Twenty-five years after commiting a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane.
