The read
Scores higher than 98% of the 1,941 1990s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic85/100
893 audience votes
Key crew
- Billy Bob ThorntonDirector
- Billy Bob ThorntonScreenplay
- Daniel LanoisOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Billy Bob ThorntonKarl Childers
- Dwight YoakamDoyle Hargraves
- J.T. WalshCharles Bushman
- John RitterVaughan Cunningham
- Lucas BlackFrank Wheatley
- Natalie CanerdayLinda Wheatley
- James HamptonJerry Woolridge
- Robert DuvallKarl's Father
- Rick DialBill Cox
- Brent BriscoeScooter Hodges
- Christine Renee WardMelinda
- Sarah BossMarsha Dwiggins
Stills
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Themes
arkansasrepair shopsoutherndeath threatreligious artfather figureintellectual disability
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