Sling Blade
Aug 30, 1996 | IMDB 7.5
135 min Watch NowDrama
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
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