Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Mar 26, 1994

0h 25m

★ 6.8

Overview

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".

Genres

Drama

Thriller

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Cast

Karl Childers

Billy Bob Thornton

Teresa Tatum

Molly Ringwald

Charles Bushman

J. T. Walsh

Gerry Woolridge

Jefferson Mays

Frances

Suzanne Cryer

Abby Abernathy

Brent Briscoe

Otto Coelho

Abe Dalool

Ron Livingston

Aaron Wheeler

Bill Boll

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