Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh
Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this mesmerizing drama with haunting overtones of To Kill a Mockingbird. Thornton plays a mentally retarded man who has spent 20 years in a ps...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 1, 1998
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Flixster Reviews (2,709)
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September 21, 2009Billy Bob Thornton is as good a director as he is an actor and he proves it in Sling Blade (well, at least he does as far as the directing goes). This is a really good film. It?s a shame Lucas Black grew up though as he was much better as a child actor.
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September 5, 2009Billy Bob Thronton writes, directs and stars in this very moving and very human drama. Thornton plays Carl, a man just released from a psychiatric hospital after killing his mother and her lover, when he was just 12 years old. Carl is a simple man, but like many films, he has ple...( read more)
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November 20, 2008"Sometimes a hero comes from the most unlikely place."
Karl Childers, now a grown man, is released from a psychiatric hospital where he has been hospitalized since the age of 12 for the murder of his mother and her lover. He returns to his childhood town and although bein...( read more) -
August 8, 2008AMAZING movie. Billy Bob was fantastic in this. There's really not much else to say. I was very much blown away.
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October 31, 2009Actor and director Billy Bob Thornton has had an illustrious career and whenever a discussion about his best role crops up, 'Sling Blade' is usually mentioned somewhere along the line. I had heard many positive things about 'Sling Blade' before I finally saw it, but nothing could...( read more)
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October 8, 2009"Billy Bob Thornton" Had "Sex" with "Halle Berry in "Monsters Ball!" "I wonder if she ever saw this movie? Would she have changed her mind?"
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Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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December 14, 2008Haven't seen this film since it was released in the U.K but I remember enjoying it. Would really like to see it again.
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November 26, 2007It's called drama, and most people actually appreciate it. It was a brilliant film and NO it wasn't meant to be a joke, this was seriously one of the most original yet powerful and touching movies I have seen.
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August 6, 2007Why does everyone seem to love this movie? It was the most boring, slow moving, predictable, pathetic waste of time ever. I knew the resolution after 15 minutes. Is this movie a joke? Was it supposed to be ble? Did everyone who saw this movie and subsequently reviewed it bash their head repeatedly on the sidewalk beforehand? The world may never know. I, for one, know that, had I not seen this movie, I would be more confident that the average person has an IQ greater than that of a common ground squirrel. Seriously, whats the big deal? I can sum it up in one sentence: Retarded biscuit-lovin' psycho kills man, plot. Don't see this travesty.
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January 3, 2007One of the best movie ever made! And Dwight Yoakam was unreal in this move.
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