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. He befriends a young boy, begins a friendship with the boy's mother and must confront the mother's abusive boyfriend. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, JT Walsh. Released 1994

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