Press enter after choosing selection

Sling Blade

DVD - 2011 DVD Drama Sling None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.7 out of 5

Cover image for Sling blade

Sign in to request

Location & Checkout Length Call Number Checkout Length Item Status
Pittsfield Adult A/V
1-week checkout
DVD Drama Sling 1-week checkout Due 03-28-2024

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: feature commentary with writer/director/actor Billy Bob Thornton; Mr. Thornton goes to Hollywood; Billy Bob Thornton (Bravo Profiles); a roundtable discussion with Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Mickey Jones and producer David Bushell; a conversation with Billy Bob Thornton and Robert Duvall; a conversation with Robert Duvall; a conversation with Billy Bob Thornton and composer Daniel Lanois; The return of Karl; On the Set (Billy Bob at work, Doyle's band, the Johnsons, Doyle gets pummeled); "Doyle's dead"; Sling Blade reviews.
Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday, Robert Duvall.
After 25 years, mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from the mental hospital where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover. He gets a job and is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother, but his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend.
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 televisions; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

thought provoking submitted by carolynherrmann on June 18, 2017, 2:25pm This movie is impossible to turn off once you start watching. The story is so unique!

Cover image for Sling blade

SERIES
Miramax Films Award-Winning Collection.


LANGUAGE OPTIONS
English dialogue, Spanish subtitles, subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

PUBLISHED
Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment , [2011]
Year Published: 2011
Description: 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0788853384
9780788853388

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rosser, Brandon.
Bushell, David L.
Thornton, Billy Bob.
Yoakam, Dwight.
Walsh, J. T.
Ritter, John, 1948-2003.
Black, Lucas, 1982-
Canerday, Natalie.
Duvall, Robert.
Miramax Films.
Shooting Gallery (Firm)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

SUBJECTS
People with mental disabilities -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.