Sling Blade

A simple man. A difficult choice.

A deeply intimate portrait of a institutionalized man seeking connection and redemption in the rural South, shadowed by his violent past and the moral weight of his choices.

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.