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Sling Blade is a american film of genre Drama directed by Billy Bob Thornton released in USA on 30 august 1996 with Dwight Yoakam

Sling Blade (1996)

Sling Blade
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Released in USA 30 august 1996
Length 2h15
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating79% 3.9979753.9979753.9979753.9979753.997975

Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. It tells the story of a man named Karl Childers who has a developmental disability and is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old, and the friendship he develops with a young boy. In addition to Thornton, it stars Dwight Yoakam, J. T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, and Robert Duvall.

The movie was adapted by Thornton from his short film and previous screenplay, Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade. Sling Blade proved to be a sleeper hit, launching Thornton into stardom. It won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Thornton was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The music for the soundtrack was provided by French Canadian artist/producer Daniel Lanois.

Synopsis

Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is a mentally disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly "institutionalized," Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a local college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts the brutal murder of his mother and her boyfriend with a Kaiser blade - during which scene he notes to the reporter that, "Some folks call it a sling blade. I call it a kaiser blade," the line from which the film derives its name. Karl continues, saying that he killed the man because he thought he was raping his mother. When he discovered that his mother was a willing participant in the affair, he killed her too.

Actors

Dwight Yoakam

(Doyle Hargraves)J. T. Walsh

(Charles Bushman)John Ritter

(Vaughan Cunningham)Lucas Black

(Frank Wheatley)Robert Duvall

(Karl's Father)
And :
Billy Bob Thornton
Natalie Canerday
James Hampton
Vic Chesnutt
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