Slingblade

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Sling Blade won the 1997 Academy Award for best original screenplay Karl has just been released from an asylum some twenty-five years after he committed a gruesome murder, returns to the town of his youth. His gentle manner and simple charm land him a job, and lead him into an unlikely friendship with a young boy and his widowed mother. But when the mother's abusive boyfriend appears, this simple man is thrust into a combustible situation that could have powerful, moving consequences for all. Billy Bob Thornton is one of Hollywood's most promising writer/directors, and Sling Blade was shown at the 1998 London Film Festival to great acclaim

Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. He was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and raised in the tiny town of Malvern. Together with Tom Epperson, Thornton wrote the acclaimed 1992 feature One False Move, as well as A Family Thing. In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing and starring in the independent film Sling Blade, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.