Sling Blade
AroView: Billy Bob Thornton burst onto the scene with this impressive writer-director-actor hat-trick in which he plays an asylum inmate re-integrated into a backwater community after two decades. Fastidious attention to character, dialogue and setting conjures an authentic portrait of Southern Americana, while its cathartic finale ultimately enshrines it as a modern classic.
“Perhaps the most remarkable thing here is Thornton’s nuanced performance, but the film has other rare virtues: all the characters are fully and richly fleshed out (with some unexpected turns by John Ritter and singer Dwight Yoakam), and the story’s construction is carefully measured.” ~Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Director
Language
English
Closed Captions [CC]
English [cc]
Country
USA
Studio
Paramount
