Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

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

Molly Ringwald

J.T. Walsh

Jefferson Mays

Suzanne Cryer

Abby Abernathy