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Sling Blade: Directed by Billy Bob Thornton. With Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter. 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.
At night, Karl is seen staring at Doyle's house and sharpening a lawnmower blade. He kills Doyle, after asking how to call the police. Karl then calls the police and waits for them to take him into custody, eating leftover fried chicken.
Sling Blade (1996) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Karl : Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade. Linda Wheatley : I'm gonna make some coffee. Karl, you want some coffee?
Billy Bob Thornton. Actor: Sling Blade. Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased).
Sling Blade: Directed by Billy Bob Thornton. With Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter. 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.
When the film was in pre-production, Billy Bob Thornton envisioned John Ritter 's character as having dyed blonde hair, thinking that Vaughan was a man who was transferred out of St. Louis for his job, where the film was set, and based his hairstyle on what he saw men sporting in GQ Magazine.
"Sling Blade" is everything most movie-goers and critics have said it is; a warm, honest story about a simple backwards boy who has just been released from the state hospital after serving around thirty years for murder.
Billy Bob Thornton and Lucas Black in Sling Blade (1996)
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade: Directed by George Hickenlooper. With Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J.T. Walsh, Jefferson Mays. Twenty-five years after commiting a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane.
