DIRECTOR * Billy Bob Thornton
PRODUCERS * Larry Meistrich, David L. Bushell
SCREENPLAY * Billy Bob Thornton
PRINCIPAL CAST:
Billy Bob Thornton
Dwight Yoakam
John Ritter
J.T. Walsh
Natalie Canerday
Lucas Black
Billy Bob Thornton (One False Move) wrote, directed and stars in SLING BLADE.. The film is a southern gothic tale about a man named Karl, who's just been released from an asylum -- some 25 years after he committed a gruesome crime.
He returns to the southern town of his youth, where his quiet, gentle manner and simple charm land him a job and lead him to an unlikely friendship with a young boy and his widowed mother. When the mother's abusive boyfriend appears, however, this simple man is thrust into a combustible dilemma that has powerful, moving consequences for all.
Trailer
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