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7.6/10   721 votes
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Writer:
Billy Bob Thornton (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
23 November 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Short | Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
Twenty-five years after commiting a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Not as great as the feature film. more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
UK:25 min | USA:25 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:18 (Ontario)

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Goofs:
Continuity: In the first scene, Charles Bushman moves some checkers around while another man sits in a trance-like state. At this point both of the seated man's hands are on the table. However, when Charles moves away from the table, one of the seated man's hands is now resting on his leg, below the table. more
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Referenced in Crap Shoot: The Documentary (2007) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Not as great as the feature film., 10 December 1999
6/10
Author: Andro-3 from Charlottesville, Virginia

I'm going to have to go out on a limb here and say that I enjoyed "Sling Blade" far more than this short, which preceded the feature film by three years. Maybe it was the snotty, hands-on-hips, childish performance by Molly Ringwald that bothered me here. Or maybe it was the horribly stereotyped view of the residents of what, in the full-length, Karl calls the "nervous hospital." Yes, the short strongly resembles the opening of the full-length film, but I think it's weaker in many ways. The cinematography is better in the feature film (and I have no problem with black and white); Molly Ringwald's performance really sours the whole 25 minutes; and left on its own, this opening really implies things I don't like. Rather than actually speculating on how Karl will deal with living unsupervised, it seems to portray all the residents of the hospital as soulless victims. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to feel at the end of the film. At the end of "Sling Blade," I felt I had gotten to know a man. At the end of "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade," I just thanked my lucky stars that Billy Bob Thornton decided to direct a version of it himself.

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