Sling Blade (Blu-ray) R
A simple man. A difficult choice.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, John Ritter, Dwight Yoakam & J.T. Walsh | |
| Performer: | Brent Briscoe, Robert Duvall, Natalie Canerday & Jim Jarmusch | |
| Directed by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Edited by | Hughes Winborne | |
| Screenwriting by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Screenplay by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Composition by | Daniel Lanois | |
| Story by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Produced by | David L. Bushell & Brandon Rosser | |
| Director of Photography: | Barry Markowitz | |
| Executive Production by | Larry Meistrich |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Billy Bob Thornton
Entertainment Reviews:
96%
93%
Rating: 8/10 --
Thornton offers a subtle, thoughtful script, generally sensitive direction, and an understated performance, uh-huh.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 5/5 --
A masterpiece of Southern storytelling.
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Washington Post
...A beautiful contraption of a movie....[SLING BLADE] haunts us... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: B --
Marking Billy Bob Thornton's debut as a director and solo writer, Sling Blade is a powerful southern gothic parable about good and evil.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 5/5 --
A mesmerizing parable of good and evil and a splendid example of Southern storytelling at its most poetic and imaginative.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
An abundance of long, flat medium shots that rob the film of intimacy and give it a sleepy pace.
New York Times
...Riveting....SLING BLADE boasts a stupendous performance from Billy Bob Thornton...
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
After catching his mother and her boyfriend "in flagrante delicto" and dispatching both of them with a farm implement known as a sling blade, a simpleminded 11-year-old boy is sent to a mental hospital where he spends the next 25 years. Upon his release, the emotionally and mentally stunted man-child returns to his Arkansas hometown and takes a job in a local garage, only to have the past inexorably repeat itself. An indie-film triumph, adapted by star-writer-director Thornton from his 1993 short, "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade." Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Actor--Billy Bob Thornton. Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay.
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