Sling Blade

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.

• Billy Bob ThorntonDirector
• Billy Bob ThorntonScreenplay
• Daniel LanoisOriginal Music Composer

• 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