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Sling Blade

1996
Directed byBilly Bob Thornton
2h 15m

Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.

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Billy Bob ThorntonKarl ChildersDwight YoakamDoyle HargravesJ.T. WalshCharles Bushman
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John RitterVaughan Cunningham
Lucas BlackFrank Wheatley
Natalie CanerdayLinda Wheatley
James HamptonJerry Woolridge
Robert DuvallKarl's Father
Rick DialBill Cox
Brent BriscoeScooter Hodges
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.5

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