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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.
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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Mentally disabled Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is released from the mental hospital where he has spent most of his life after murdering his mother and her lover. He soon forms a bond with ...
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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!
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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.
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.
