Overview - Sling Blade

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 135 minutes

Homepage: Sling Blade

Budget

$1,200,000.00

Revenue

$34,100,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Miramax

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: The Shooting Gallery

    Production country United States of America

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Billy Bob Thornton

    Character: Karl Childers

    Popularity: 1.9853

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  • Name: Dwight Yoakam

    Character: Doyle Hargraves

    Popularity: 1.1025

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  • Name: J. T. Walsh

    Character: Charles Bushman

    Popularity: 1.5976

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  • Name: John Ritter

    Character: Vaughan Cunningham

    Popularity: 6.6822

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  • Name: Lucas Black

    Character: Frank Wheatley

    Popularity: 1.2385

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  • Name: Natalie Canerday

    Character: Linda Wheatley

    Popularity: 1.169

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  • Name: James Hampton

    Character: Jerry Woolridge

    Popularity: 1.7487

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  • Name: Robert Duvall

    Character: Karl's Father

    Popularity: 1.7874

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