Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

• 6.7 Drama
• 1994-03-26
• 25 minutes mins

25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".

Starring:

Billy Bob Thornton (Karl Childers) Molly Ringwald (Teresa Tatum) J.T. Walsh (Charles Bushman) Jefferson Mays (Gerry Woolridge) Suzanne Cryer (Frances) Abby Abernathy () Brent Briscoe () Otto Coelho () Abe Dalool () Ron Livingston ()

Director:

George Hickenlooper

Writer:

Billy Bob Thornton