Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
March 1994
25 mins
TMDB
6.8
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".
Cast
Billy Bob Thornton
Karl Childers
Molly Ringwald
Teresa Tatum
J. T. Walsh
Charles Bushman
Jefferson Mays
Gerry Woolridge
Suzanne Cryer
Frances
Abby Abernathy
Brent Briscoe
Otto Coelho
Abe Dalool
Ron Livingston
