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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

6.7199425mMovieDramaThriller

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".

DirectorGeorge Hickenlooper
WriterBilly Bob Thornton
ProducersKevin Hell·Mike Herman

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Cast · Directed by George Hickenlooper

BTBilly Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton
Karl Childers
MRMolly Ringwald
Molly Ringwald
Teresa Tatum
JWJ.T. Walsh
J.T. Walsh
Charles Bushman
JMJefferson Mays
Jefferson Mays
Gerry Woolridge
SCSuzanne Cryer
Suzanne Cryer
Frances
AA
Abby Abernathy
BBBrent Briscoe
Brent Briscoe
OC
Otto Coelho
AD
Abe Dalool
RLRon Livingston
Ron Livingston
AW
Aaron Wheeler
BB
Bill Boll

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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade hasn't started streaming in India yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around May 14, 1994. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.