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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

George Hickenlooper

1994

  • Drama
  • Thriller
6.7

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".

Cast & crew

  • George HickenlooperDirector
  • Billy Bob ThorntonKarl Childers
  • Molly RingwaldTeresa Tatum
  • J.T. WalshCharles Bushman
  • Jefferson MaysGerry Woolridge
  • Suzanne CryerFrances
  • Abby Abernathy
  • Brent Briscoe
  • Otto Coelho

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