Before his excellent roles in Taylor Sheridan's Landman, Fargo, and Goliath, Billy Bob Thorntonprimarily focused on featur ...

Knowing this, it seems strange that the movie has been borderline impossible to watch for a long time unless you obtain a physical copy of "Sling Blade." In fact, before 2024, streaming the film ...

On June 7, Thornton released a director's cut of the film, which features more than 22 minutes of extra footage, along with a wealth of archival material recounting the filmmaker's days as a ...

Karl Childers In 1996’s “Sling Blade,” country singer Dwight Yoakam played villain Doyle, who ended up on the wrong end of Karl’s (Billy Bob Thornton) swinging lawn mower blade.

When Sling Blade hit theaters in 1996, it set the tone for movies set in the South and Arkansas while catapulting Billy Bob Thornton to stardom. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...

The ‘Sling Blade’ actor talks about growing up poor in Arkansas and the movie that made him an artist. Billy Bob Thornton in Austin, Texas, in April John Shearer/Getty Images.