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Sling Blade Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Mentally disabled Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is released from the mental hospital where he has spent most of his life after murdering his mother and her lover. He soon forms a bond with Frank (Lucas Black), a boy whose father committed suicide. When Frank’s mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), lets Karl stay at their house, her cruel boyfriend, Doyle (Dwight Yoakam), tries to get Karl removed. Determined to protect his friend, Karl devises a way to save Frank from years of Doyle’s abuse.

Cast
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
Robert Duvall as Frank Childers

Directed by
Billy Bob Thornton

Written by
Billy Bob Thornton

Produced by
Larry Meistrich, David T. Bushell, Brandon Rosser
Transcript
00:00In a few minutes, we're going to be in a room with a killer.
00:10What you just want to know is what I'm doing in here.
00:14I killed some folks quite a while back.
00:16They told me I'm well from it now.
00:20Why are you letting him out?
00:21He's free.
00:21His time's up.
00:22That's the rules.
00:24Oh.
00:26After 25 years, Carl Childers is
00:29coming back to his hometown.
00:31Carl, see if you can figure out what's wrong with this thing.
00:33Won't crank up, and everything seems to be put together right.
00:36It ain't got no gas in it.
00:38Finding a friendship he never had.
00:40My name's Frank Wheatley.
00:42What's your name?
00:43Carl's my name.
00:44Who's that strange looking man behind you?
00:46That's Carl.
00:47I met him at the laundromat.
00:49Nice to meet you, Carl.
00:50And a family he has always wanted.
00:52Mama said you can stay over with us.
00:54I like the way you talk.
00:56Well, I like the way you talk.
00:59Just how retarded are you?
01:00Stop it, though.
01:01Mama has a boyfriend.
01:02He threatened to kill her if she ever left him.
01:05And you're going to learn to live by my rules.
01:06Doyle is a monster.
01:08But when the darkness comes back into his life.
01:10He's mean to you and your mama.
01:12He's forced to make a decision he hasn't
01:14had to make in 25 years.
01:16I'm going to kill you dead in a doornail.
01:23Starring Dwight Yoakam, John Ritter, JT Walsh.
01:29Written, directed, and starring Billy Bob Thornton.
01:32Will you ever kill anybody again, Carl?
01:37I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody.
01:41Sling Blade.