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Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town. Director Billy Bob Thornton Stars Billy Bob Thornton Dwight Yoakam J.T. Walsh. 2. Princess Mononoke. 1997 2h 14m PG-13. 8.3 (435K) Rate. 76 Metascore.
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- Sling Blade (1996) When Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is released from a mental hospital decades after killing his mother, he forms an unlikely bond with Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black), a young boy still coming to terms with his father’s suicide.
- Bad Santa (2003) As far as anyone is concerned, Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is nothing more than a foul-mouthed and persistently hungover mall Santa who takes the holiday season one bottle of cheap booze at a time.
- Armageddon (1998) With a planet-killing asteroid set on a collision course with Earth, NASA executive Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) comes up with a far-fetched plan that just so happens to be humanity’s only chance of survival: send a group of roughnecks from an offshore oil rig led by Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) to drill into the surface of the rock and blow it up with a nuclear bomb.
- Friday Night Lights (2004) When their star player, Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) sustains a season-ending injury in the opening game, the Permian High School Panthers, head coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) leads the team on improbable campaign to the state championship game.
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- 'Sling Blade' (1996) Director: Billy Bob Thornton. In a movie he wrote, directed, and starred in, Thornton was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Screenplay.
- 'A Simple Plan' (1998) Director: Sam Raimi. Scott Smith adapted his fictional novel of the same name into a gripping screenplay and trusted director Sam Raimi to bring the story to life.
- 'One False Move' (1992) Director: Carl Franklin. Thornton announced himself to the world with a screenplay he co-wrote and a starring role so captivating that it was meant to be a straight-to-video release, but word of mouth quickly spread, earning One False Move a theatrical distribution.
- 'Bandits' (2001) Director: Barry Levinson. Thornton and Cate Blanchett reunite, adding Bruce Willis to the party in this lively bank robbery drama by Barry Levinson.
- Sling Blade. Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh. 181 votes. 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.
- A Simple Plan. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe. 92 votes. A Simple Plan is a chilling drama-thriller that unwinds in the heart of rural America.
- Bad Santa. Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly. 142 votes. In Bad Santa, Willie Soke (Billy Bob Thornton) is a conman and a thief who, with his partner Marcus (Tony Cox), has an unusual seasonal job.
- Monster's Ball. Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger. 107 votes. Hank, an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia, a Black woman and wife of a man sentenced to death.
- Primary Colors (1998) 80%
- Chrystal (2004) 80%
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) 81%
- Friday Night Lights (2004) 82%
- Daddy and Them (2001) 86%
- Monster's Ball (2001) 85%
- A Simple Plan (1998) 90%
- The Apostle (1998) 88%
- Sling Blade (1996) 97%
- One False Move (1991) 93%
Based on a thinly fictionalized account of the 1992 presidential campaign written by Joe Klein (who hid, for a time, behind the nom de plume “Anonymous”), and featuring cameos by Geraldo Rivera, Charlie Rose, Larry King, and Bill Maher as themselves, 1998’s Primary Colors could easily have been overshadowed by the real-life circus that followed Bil...
As a guy who habitually writes and directs his own movies, perhaps Billy Bob Thornton is predisposed to have a soft spot for films led by triple-threat talents — or maybe he just appreciated Chrystal, the 2004 directorial debut from actor-screenwriter Ray McKinnon, on its own merits. Either way, this drama about an Arkansas ex-con (Thornton) grappl...
The Coen brothers went neo-noir for 2001’s The Man Who Wasn’t There, drafting a stellar batch of character actors (including Thornton, Richard Jenkins, Tony Shalhoub, and Frances McDormand) to tell the story of a barber (Thornton) whose placid-seeming suburban post-WWII existence unravels into a crazy tangle of blackmail, murder, and one very preco...
Before it was an acclaimed cult favorite on the TV dial, Friday Night Lights was a Buzz Bissinger non-fiction book about life on the Texas high school gridiron — and then it was a Peter Berg drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as a football coach with the weight of a small town’s hopes and dreams on his program’s shoulders. In hindsight, it seems awf...
Thornton and Miramax enjoyed a fairly fruitful relationship (see Sling Blade), but the industry is always changing — as are studio fortunes. You’d think the guy who won an Oscar for writing, directing, and starring in Sling Blade would have a blank check, but 2001’s Daddy and Them — made for a paltry $4 million — barely eked out a limited release b...
There are dark indie dramas, and then there’s Monster’s Ball. Starring Halle Berry as a widow raising her child after the death of her husband — and Thornton as the former prison guard who strikes up an affair with her after helping supervise his execution — it’s a film whose characters are flawed to the point that most of them spend much of the fi...
Are people inherently good or evil, or are their morals and ethics driven by the choices available to them? That’s the devilishly grim question at the heart of Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan, an adaptation of the Scott Smith book about a pair of brothers (played by Thornton and Bill Paxton) who happen upon a downed plane full of cash during a hunting ex...
Two years after Robert Duvall appeared in Billy Bob Thornton’s labor of love Sling Blade, Thornton repaid the favor, taking on a role as a town resident whose views and temperament threaten to cause problems for Duvall’s titular man of the cloth. Like Sling Blade, The Apostlefound its leading man working behind the camera, directing from his own sc...
Thornton had been around for awhile by the time he made Sling Blade, but it really marks the spot where he became a known quantity for moviegoers — and for power players in Hollywood, who sat up and took notice when it turned into an Oscar-winning sleeper hit. He wrote, directed, and starred in the rural-set drama, which centers on a developmentall...
Its commercial prospects were fatally hobbled by a lack of studio faith so profound that it wasn’t even originally supposed to have a theatrical release, but thanks to overwhelmingly positive reviews, 1992’s One False Move — starring Thornton as the ringleader of a gang of criminals that runs afoul of an Arkansas sheriff (Bill Paxton) who teaches t...
Jul 21, 2023 · Home. Movie Lists. Billy Bob Thorton’s 15 Best Films, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes. By Federico Furzan. Published Jul 21, 2023. He's done every role out there, but Billy Bob Thornton...
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Jul 29, 2023 · Film. July 28, 2023 7:10PM. BEI/REX/Shutterstock. Save. Billy Bob Thornton has always blended his career with film and television roles. His most recent starring role was on the Amazon legal...
