Sling Blade

• 7.528 Drama
• 1996-08-30
• 135 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Billy Bob Thornton (Karl Childers) Dwight Yoakam (Doyle Hargraves) J.T. Walsh (Charles Bushman) John Ritter (Vaughan Cunningham) Lucas Black (Frank Wheatley) Natalie Canerday (Linda Wheatley) James Hampton (Jerry Woolridge) Robert Duvall (Karl's Father) Rick Dial (Bill Cox) Brent Briscoe (Scooter Hodges)

Director:

Billy Bob Thornton

Writer:

Billy Bob Thornton