Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994)

Name: Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Director: George Hickenlooper
Released: 1994-03-26
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J. T. Walsh, Jefferson Mays, Suzanne Cryer

DramaThriller

25 min

Plot Summary

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".