Sling Blade
A simple man. A difficult choice.
Sling Blade (1996)
Timing:
2:15 (135 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama
Budget
$1 200 000
Revenue
$34 100 000
Director
Actors
Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, Robert Duvall, Rick Dial, Brent Briscoe
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
David L. Bushell, Brandon Rosser, Larry Meistrich
Operator
Barry Markowitz
Composer
Artist
Max Biscoe
Audition
Sarah Tackett
Editing
Hughes Winborne
All team (25)
All team (25)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The director's cut of the film has a runtime of 148 minutes.
- Film director Jim Jarmusch appeared in a cameo role as a local fast-food vendor.
- To remember to limp and do it convincingly, Billy Bob Thornton put shards of glass in his shoes.
- Billy Bob Thornton's directorial debut in a feature film.
- All the members of the unremarkable band in which Doyle plays are, in fact, successful and well-known musicians. Doyle himself is played by Dwight Yoakam – a country singer, songwriter, and actor.
- Harvey Weinstein, who held a high position at Miramax Films at the time, watched the first half hour of the film and agreed to purchase the rights to it for $10 million. However, Weinstein later forced Billy Bob Thornton to cut the film by 20 minutes.
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