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Sling Blade (1996) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The film was adapted by Thornton from his previous one-man show Swine Before Pearls, [3] from which he also developed a screenplay for the 1994 short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade, directed by George Hickenlooper.
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.
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Lucas Black. Actor: Sling Blade. Lucas York Black was born on November 29, 1982 in Decatur, Alabama to Jan (Keenum), an office worker, and Larry Black, a museum worker. With no formal acting lessons, Lucas made his film debut with a small part in the Kevin Costner film The War (1994) at age 11.
Billy Bob Thornton. Screenplay, Theatre Play. 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.
Musical artist. Billy Bob Thornton[ 2 ][ 3 ] (born August 4, 1955) is an American film actor, filmmaker, singer, and songwriter. He received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an ...
Discover the actors behind the iconic characters of Sling Blade. See Karl Childers, played by Billy Bob Thornton, in this tale of redemption after being institutionalized for the murder of his mother and her lover.
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the film. The story follows Karl Childers, a mentally challenged man who is released from a psychiatric hospital after being institutionalized for murder.
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