Category: Sling Blade

  • Sling Blade (1996, Billy Bob Thornton), the director’s cut

    Sometimes lovely film about developmentally disabled Thornton (who stars, writes, directs) getting out of the mental hospital he’s been in since killing his mother and her lover as a child. He soon bonds with 12-year old Lucas Black, who’s experiencing his own traumas. Way too long, way too many montages. Embarrassing-to-the-production bad performance from Dwight…