Sling Blade

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Billy Bob Thornton Karl Childers

Dwight Yoakam Doyle Hargraves

J. T. Walsh Charles Bushman

John Ritter Vaughan Cunningham

Lucas Black Frank Wheatley