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My Movie Diary 2017 (217 movies items)"23 May. Billy Bob Thornton's amazing directorial debut presents us with a timely story that is both whimsical and scary. Thornton is Karl, a retard who spent 25 years in the nuthouse for killing his mother and her lover. Now, freed to society, he befriends a boy and his mother and protects them against the mother's drunkard and abusive boyfriend the only way he can. Sling Blade plays like a modern Frankenstein, a little gothic movie gem. "
Actor and Screenwriter (Same Movie) (26 movies items)" Billy Bob Thornton and Lucas Black (Screenwriter: Billy Bob Thornton, Based on Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade by Billy Bob Thornton)"
Films I've Seen in 2016 (November) (31 movies items)"When: November 5th First-Time Viewing: Yes. How: DVD from the library. What'd I Think?: Well written, engaging, if somewhat predictable human drama. My Rating: 9/10 Other Notes: NA."
30 From 96: My Favorite Films From 1996 (30 movies items)"A gruffy mental patient is ready to be de-institutionalized and is set free, out into the world, to try and assimilate into normal society. Not too long after, through the kindness of others, he finds the merest of jobs, finds the merest of homes, heck, he even finds the merest of family. Hopefully, to begin a life of normalcy. Until he finds out that in certain parts of life, normalcy includes dysfunctionality. And with his past, dysfunction is something that can turn out to be pretty danger"
