What is Sling Blade?
Sling Blade is a film first released in 1996. Catalogued under Drama.
- Type
- Film
- Year
- 1996
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 135 minutes
- Release date
- Aug 30, 1996
- Studios
- Miramax, The Shooting Gallery
- Genres
- Drama
- Updated
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Overview
Sling Blade is a film first released in 1996. Catalogued under Drama. Produced and broadcast by Miramax, The Shooting Gallery. Current status: Released.
Should you watch it?
“An institutionalized man is deemed fit for release after decades in a mental hospital.”
- Focuses on a unique and complex character
- Explores the challenges of returning to the outside world
- Limited plot details provided in the available material
- Deals with serious subject matter involving a past crime
Watch it if you enjoy dramatic character studies about institutionalized individuals facing the outside world.
Contains mature dramatic themes involving institutionalization and a past murder.
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When was Sling Blade released?
The film was released on November 27, 1996 in the United States.
Who is the main character of the film?
The main character is Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man.
Where has Karl Childers lived since he was 12?
He has been in the custody of a state mental hospital.
Why was Karl in the mental hospital?
He was placed there for killing his mother and her lover.
What happens to Karl at the beginning of the story?
He is deemed fit to be released into the outside world despite being thoroughly institutionalized.
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