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Mar 14, 1997 · Sling Blade is a 1996 movie about Karl Childers, a partially handicapped man who kills his mother and her lover as a child and is released from a mental hospital as an adult. He befriends a young boy and faces the abusive boyfriend of his host family in a small town.
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Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton. Set in Arkansas, it is the story of intellectually challenged Karl Childers and the friendship he develops with a boy and his mother. Karl was released from a psychiatric hospital where he had grown up due to having killed his mother and her lover ...
Sling Blade is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as Karl Childers, a man released from an asylum after killing his mother. The film won the Writers Guild Award for Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for four Oscars.
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He soon forms a bond with Frank (Lucas Black), a boy whose father committed suicide. When Frank's mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), lets Karl stay at their house, her cruel boyfriend, Doyle ...
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Sling Blade. 25 Years after commiting an unthinkable crime, a quiet man named Karl (Thornton) finally returns home. Once there, he's befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother. But when his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend, Karl is suddenly placed on a collision course with his past! 8,553 IMDb 8.0 2 h 14 min 1997.
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Nov 29, 1996 · Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed and starred in this drama about a retarded man who kills his mother and her lover as a child and is released from prison as an adult. He befriends a boy and his mother, and faces the consequences of his past and present.
A movie about Karl Childers, a mentally handicapped man who killed his mother and her lover as a child and was released from a mental hospital. He befriends a young boy, Frank, and faces the abusive boyfriend of Frank's mother.
