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Release Date:
23 November 1999 (USA) See more »
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Plot:
Twenty-five years after commiting a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane... See more » | Add synopsis »
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination See more »
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Directed by
George Hickenlooper 
 
Writing credits
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Billy Bob Thornton 

Produced by
Michael Beugg .... co-producer
Kevin Hell .... executive producer
Mike Herman .... executive producer
George Hickenlooper .... producer
Kevin Hudnell .... producer
Adam Lindemann .... producer
Bradford L. Schlei .... executive producer (as Brad Schlei)
 
Original Music by
Bill Boll 
 
Cinematography by
Kent L. Wakeford  (as Kent Wakeford)
 
Film Editing by
Henny Bouwmeester 
George Hickenlooper 
 
Art Direction by
Deborah Smith 
 
Costume Design by
Matthew Jacobsen 
 
Makeup Department
Hila Amrani .... assistant hair stylist
Hila Amrani .... assistant makeup artist
Elena Arroy .... hair stylist
Elena Arroy .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Glennon Schneider .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Juanita Dias Costa .... second assistant director
Jeffrey A. Fisher .... first assistant director
 
Art Department
Gregory Arnett .... assistant art director
Arnd Stockhausen .... property master
 
Sound Department
Mike Gitman .... sound mixer
Yehuda Maayan .... boom operator (as Juda Maayan)
Peter V. Meiselmann .... production sound mixer
Peter V. Meiselmann .... sound designer
Gary Shepherd .... sound editor
 
Camera and Electrical Department
John Enbom .... camera loader
Steve Goedde .... set photographer
Stuart Hanna .... grip
Ralph Harwin .... electrician
Ralph Harwin .... grip
Evan A. Nesbitt .... first assistant camera
Maggie Robison .... electrician
Jim Sanfilippo .... gaffer
Jamie Sterra .... second assistant camera
George Steward .... best boy grip
John A. Strubbe .... key grip (as John Strubbe)
Eric Trageser .... first assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Juanita Dias Costa .... editorial department
W.M. Grimes .... editorial department
Douglas O. Hart .... editorial department
Howard Lavick .... editorial consultant
Ray Morfino .... color timer
 
Other crew
Frank Buckner .... assistant to director
Mark Gimbrere .... production assistant
Linda Kwan .... script supervisor
Margaret Stevens .... production coordinator
Tracy Young .... caterer
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Runtime:
UK:25 min | USA:25 min
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Certification:
Canada:18 (Ontario)

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Goofs:
Continuity: In the first scene, Charles Bushman moves some checkers around while another man sits in a trance-like state. At this point both of the seated man's hands are on the table. However, when Charles moves away from the table, one of the seated man's hands is now resting on his leg, below the table.See more »
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References Star Wars (1977)See more »

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16 out of 18 people found the following review useful.
All great stories have a beginning!, 21 March 2002
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Longmont: Colorado US

Pretty much everything has been said by previous reviewers here. It is probably pertinent to add that but for the success of this little independent number, the full length SLING BLADE most probably would never have gotten made three years later.

Obviously a labor of love for creator Billy Bob Thornton. He presents a markedly different Karl Childers here. As retardedly backward but infinitely more menacing. It was probably on reflection that the character was made more "marketable" and sympathetic the second time around. Both films are such an absorbing focus on what is essentially a simple man turned (by dint of social expectation) feral by circumstances totally outside his control. The villain of the piece of course was Karl's father, played in a marvellous one-off cameo by Robert Duvall in the feature-length film.

In SOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE, the reporter is played by Molly Ringwald. Many seem not to have approved of her interpretation of the part, preferring the cutesy high-school reporter in the 1996 release. I thought she handled it well, after all she was dealing with a quite different "Karl Childers.'

Either way, this makes for a fascinating back-up to SLING BLADE. If anything, it adds to one's understanding of the man himself.

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