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Sling Blade

film by Thornton [1996]

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  • Billy Bob Thornton
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    …came four years later, with Sling Blade. In addition to penning the screenplay, Thornton directed and starred in the film. Sling Blade—in which a mentally handicapped man, who as a boy killed his mother and her lover, is released from a mental hospital in the rural South and returns to…

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Oscar to Thornton for best adapted screenplay, 1996

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