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06/24/06
Sling Blade (1996)
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Reviews Counted: 43
Fresh: 41
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Consensus: You will see what's coming, but the masterful performances, especially Thornton's, will leave you riveted.
Runtime: 2 hrs 37 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: After catching his mother and her boyfriend "in flagrante delicto" and dispatching both of them with a farm implement known as a sling blade, a simpleminded 11-year-old boy is sent to a mental hospital where he spends the next 25 years. Upon... [More]
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Dwight Yoakam, John Ritter
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Reviews for Sling Blade
Top Critic
It will make you laugh and cry. And it will make you think long and hard about the last time you saw a movie this good.
01/01/00
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05/26/06
There will never be another film like Sling Blade. And I reckon we’ll have to live with that... Mmm-mmm.
09/07/05
These days Thornton is seen primarily as an actor, but with “Sling Blade” he proved a true auteur.
07/15/05
...a moving, poignant, humorous, chilling, and melancholic motion picture, with a bravura turn from its writer/director/star.
06/03/05
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04/09/05
Sling Blade derives its power from Thornton's affecting characterization of Karl Childers.
07/01/04
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11/06/02
There is almost nothing slipshod about the film and I suspect that it will only seem more impressive the further we get from the flurry of hype ...
11/01/02
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10/15/02
This riveting character-driven drama is a cautionary tale about the ways in which violence desecrates all life.
08/31/02
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06/05/02
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