Sling Blade is a 1996 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 mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old. He befriends a young boy, begins a friendship...
Initial release date:
- Nov 27, 1996
Tagline:
- A simple man. A difficult choice.
