Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Name: Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Director: George Hickenlooper
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1994-03-26
Duration: 25 min
Rating: 6.691
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J.T. Walsh, Jefferson Mays, Suzanne Cryer

1994

25m

Drama Thriller

Director: George Hickenlooper

Writer: Billy Bob Thornton

Overview

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".