"A simple man. A difficult choice." 30 August 1996 Drama 135 mins
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.
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Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers
Dwight Yoakam as Doyle Hargraves
J. T. Walsh as Charles Bushman
John Ritter as Vaughan Cunningham
Lucas Black as Frank Wheatley
Natalie Canerday as Linda Wheatley
James Hampton as Jerry Woolridge
Robert Duvall as Karl's Father
Rick Dial as Bill Cox
Brent Briscoe as Scooter Hodges
Christine Renee Ward as Melinda
Sarah Boss as Marsha Dwiggins
Kathy Sue Brown as Theresa Evans
Wendell Rafferty as Melvin
Bruce Hampton as Morris
Vic Chesnutt as Terence
Billy Bob Thornton Director
Billy Bob Thornton Screenplay
Billy Bob Thornton Theatre Play
David L. Bushell Producer
Larry Meistrich Executive Producer
Brandon Rosser Producer
Daniel Lanois Original Music Composer
Barry Markowitz Director of Photography
Hughes Winborne Editor
Sarah Tackett Casting
Clark Hunter Production Design
Traci Kirshbaum Set Decoration
Doug Hall Costume Design
Kate Biscoe Key Hair Stylist
Tracy Warbin Key Makeup Artist
Robert Salerno Production Manager
Sling Blade - Auf Messers Schneide Trailer
İti Ülgüc Trailer
Resplandor en la noche Trailer
弹簧刀 Trailer
לולאת להב Trailer
Australia 31 July 1997
Czech Republic 28 January 1999
Germany 18 September 1997
United Kingdom 13 March 1998
Greece 30 August 1996
Korea 30 September 2000
Netherlands 19 August 2005
United States 30 August 1996
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Trailer for Sling Blade (1996) captured from the Scream (1996) VHS tape. This tape is labeled 12633 and released in (1997).
Not the official trailer. I edited this for my film editing class. Enjoy.
edited with trailer footage from hitman 2007.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1996:
13 September 1996
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
18 October 1996
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them.
03 May 1996
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
23 February 1996
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy.
21 November 1996
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son.
21 June 1996
Isolated in the bell tower of Notre Dame, Quasimodo longs to experience the world beyond the cathedral walls, despite the wishes of his stern guardian, the Judge of Paris Claude Frollo.
17 June 1996
Chris and Peter live and work in the apartment belonging to Birgit, Peter's former girlfriend and Chris' present girlfriend.
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Jerry Lundegaard is a small-town Minnesota car salesman deeply in debt and willing to do almost anything to get out.
14 February 1996
Carla's (Rita Magdalena) sister commits suicide. Devastated, she decides to go to the province.. where she wreaks havoc among the men.
03 April 1996
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good.
20 June 1996
The film discusses a father's unability to grow his children due to the rreason that their mother is no more.
10 June 1996
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