Sling Blade [SEP] narrative location
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. Set in rural Arkansas (filmed in Benton, Arkansas) the film tells the story of a man named Karl Childers who has an intellectual disability and is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old, and the friendship he develops with a young boy and his mother. In addition to Thornton, it stars
Mayor of the Sunset Strip", 2003
- "Speechless", 2008
- "Out in the City", 2009 (short)
- "'Hick' Town", 2009
Filmography Narrative films.
- "Ghost Brigade", 1993
- "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade", 1994 (short)
- "The Low Life", 1995
- "Persons Unknown", 1996
- "The Big Brass Ring", 1999
- "The Man from Elysian