Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".

• George HickenlooperDirector
• Billy Bob ThorntonWriter
• Bill BollOriginal Music Composer

• Billy Bob ThorntonKarl Childers
• Molly RingwaldTeresa Tatum
• J.T. WalshCharles Bushman
• Jefferson MaysGerry Woolridge
• Suzanne CryerFrances
• Abby AbernathyCast
• Brent BriscoeCast
• Otto CoelhoCast
• Abe DaloolCast
• Ron LivingstonCast
• Aaron WheelerCast
• Bill BollCast