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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Billy Bob Thornton
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Actors:
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J.T. Walsh,
James Hampton,
Natalie Canerday,
Rick Dial,
Christine Renee Ward,
Sarah Boss,
Kathy Sue Brown,
Wendell Rafferty,
Bruce Hampton,
Billy Bob Thornton,
Dwight Yoakam,
John Ritter,
Lucas Black,
Robert Duvall,
Brent Briscoe
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)86
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Plot Summary:
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Karl Childers, now a grown bracelets, is released from a psychiatric sickbay where he has been hospitalized since the age of 12 for the wreck of his mother and her lover. He returns to his babyhood town and although being mentally handicapped, gets a toil fixing small motors at a townsperson repair shop. Karl befriends a youthful boy, Frank, and is soon invited by Frank's mother, Linda, to move into the family's garage. As a strong relationship develops between Karl and Frank, a confrontation builds with Linda's dirty and every so often violent boyfriend Doyle.
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One of the most stunning movies you will ever see
?Sling Blade? is an emotional roller coaster of a film which establishes Billy Bob Thornton as one the best actors, writers, and directors around toady. ?Sling Blade? revolves around the story of the mentally handicapped Karl Childers, who is committed to a mental hospital at the age of twelve for double murder of his mother and her lover, and on release his attempt as an adult to make it in the outside world. Upon his release Childers is given a mechanics job fixing lawn mower engines and befriends a young boy, his widowed mother, and her gay best friend. Unfortunately, the mother's drunken, violent boyfriend cannot accept Karl getting in the way of his relationship, and sets out to make things miserable for everyone, especially the young boy. As the film moves along, there can be no ...
Powerful and Moving
You almost seem to know where this film is going - there is just the inexorable pull towards an end you sincerely hope doesn't take place. Billy Bob Thornton's character is just so sympathetic and tragic (an utterly brilliant performance), you just want to shout out - 'give the guy a chance - take the evil out of this world and maybe this man can prosper'. Beautifully and darkly compelling.
Sling Blade
Thornton made his mark as scribe and actor in A woman False Move, and his directorial launch (from his own Oscar-successful...
Sling Blade
Developed from the stunted Some Rally It a Sling Dagger, this august and shockingly moving drama brought debutant guide Billy Bob Thornton to global concentration. In addition to winning an Oscar benefit of his screenplay, he also drew a best actor nomination towards his mesmerising performance as hesitant, possibly harmless handyman Karl Childers. It's a case of Norman Bates encounter Tennessee Williams in a sleepy Deep South hollow as Childers befriends a lonely old bean on being released from the secure hospital where he'd been held appropriate for 25 years after murdering his shelter and her beau. This is darkly comic, superbly acted and categorically compelling.
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