Sling Blade (Blu-ray)
A simple man. A difficult choice.
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: February 23, 2021
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, John Ritter & Dwight Yoakam | |
| Performer: | Natalie Canerday, Jim Jarmusch & Robert Duvall | |
| Directed by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Edited by | Hughes Winborne | |
| Screenwriting by | Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Composition by | Daniel Lanois | |
| Produced by | Brandon Rosser & David L. Bushell | |
| Director of Photography: | Barry Markowitz | |
| Executive Production by | Larry Meistrich |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Billy Bob Thornton
Entertainment Reviews:
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...Marked by some powerful scenes, fine performances and colorful dialogue....Yoakam is excellent...
Variety
...The movie is a work of great originality and fascination....[The] characters are brought to life with a vivid strength...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Thornton brings three key ingredients to the table: distinctive, rich, authentic Southern locations, patient and painterly atmosphere, and a precise and fresh character to study. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Well acted, a multi-leveled story and a pure honesty make Sling Blade one of my favourite films of the 1990s.
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Movie Views
Stretched over 141 minutes, and threaded with humor, it is remarkably spare and simple, a slow movie about a slow man-Forrest Gump Unplugged.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: B --
Much of the audience appeal relies on the film's simplicity
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Old School Reviews
...A mesmerizing parable of good and evil and a splendid example of Southern storytelling at its most poetic and imaginative...
Los Angeles Times
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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