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".
Billy Bob Thornton
as Karl Childers
Molly Ringwald
as Teresa Tatum
J. T. Walsh
as Charles Bushman
Jefferson Mays
as Gerry Woolridge
Suzanne Cryer
as Frances
Abby Abernathy
as
Brent Briscoe
as
Otto Coelho
as
Abe Dalool
as
Ron Livingston
as
Aaron Wheeler
as
Bill Boll
as
