bloody past played by Arkansas-native Billy Bob Thornton. This week in 1996 Thornton’s “Sling Blade” was first released into art house theaters. It would go on to be nominated for two ...

In Sling Blade, a mentally challenged ... some facts about the movie that pair well with French fried potaters. 1. KARL WAS BORN FROM BILLY BOB THORNTON'S FRUSTRATION WITH A MADE-FOR-CABLE MOVIE.

If “Sling ... Billy Bob Thornton: “You’re kidding. He’s with her?” In some ways I haven’t gotten past that thought. “Sling Blade” quickly became a kind of joke — “French fried ...

Here, he takes us under the hood of how he developed such a personal and distinctive storytelling style, and explains the profound impact that Billy Bob Thorton’s indie classic Sling Blade had ...

The bar half-lit, his beer quarter-full, Billy Bob ... Thornton is like a skip in a record, a crack between a lyric. His characters, including the mentally slow handyman in "Sling Blade," the ...

If anyone wondered who Billy Bob Thornton was in the mid-1990s, the 1996 psychological drama "Sling Blade" definitely put the actor on the map. Thornton both directed the movie and starred as main ...

Sling Blade isn't just about a plot, an actor, or a director, rather, it's about the dreams of one man, who coincidentally played all three of the previously mentioned roles, Billy Bob Thornton ...