25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".
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George Hickenlooper
Director, Producer, Editor
Billy Bob Thornton
Writer
Bradford L. Schlei
Executive Producer
Mike Herman
Executive Producer
Kevin Hell
Executive Producer
Kevin Hudnell
Producer
Adam Lindemann
Producer
Kent L. Wakeford
Director of Photography
Bill Boll
Original Music Composer
Henny Bouwmeester
Editor
Matthew Jacobsen
Costume Design
