Sling Blade R
A simple man. A difficult choice.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Dwight Yoakam, John Ritter & J.T. Walsh | |
Performer: | Brent Briscoe, Robert Duvall, Natalie Canerday & Jim Jarmusch | |
Directed by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
Edited by | Hughes Winborne | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
Screenplay by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
Composition by | Daniel Lanois | |
Story by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
Produced by | David L. Bushell & Brandon Rosser | |
Director of Photography: | Barry Markowitz | |
Executive Production by | Larry Meistrich |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Billy Bob Thornton
Entertainment Reviews:
[Thornton] performance is so good that his directing may be slighted.
The New Republic
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Thornton brings three key ingredients to the table: distinctive, rich, authentic Southern locations, patient and painterly atmosphere, and a precise and fresh character to study. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Stretched over 141 minutes, and threaded with humor, it is remarkably spare and simple, a slow movie about a slow man-Forrest Gump Unplugged.
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Maclean's Magazine
...The movie is a work of great originality and fascination....[The] characters are brought to life with a vivid strength...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 5/5 --
A masterpiece of Southern storytelling.
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Washington Post
...Riveting....SLING BLADE boasts a stupendous performance from Billy Bob Thornton...
Rolling Stone
...A mesmerizing parable of good and evil and a splendid example of Southern storytelling at its most poetic and imaginative...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
After catching his mother and her boyfriend "in flagrante delicto" and dispatching both of them with a farm implement known as a sling blade, a simpleminded 11-year-old boy is sent to a mental hospital where he spends the next 25 years. Upon his release, the emotionally and mentally stunted man-child returns to his Arkansas hometown and takes a job in a local garage, only to have the past inexorably repeat itself. An indie-film triumph, adapted by star-writer-director Thornton from his 1993 short, "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade." Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Actor--Billy Bob Thornton. Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 126,217
- UPC: 031398138013
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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