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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".
Directed by George Hickenlooper

Billy Bob Thornton
Karl Childers

Molly Ringwald
Teresa Tatum

J.T. Walsh
Charles Bushman

Jefferson Mays
Gerry Woolridge

Suzanne Cryer
Frances

Abby Abernathy

Brent Briscoe

Otto Coelho

Abe Dalool

Ron Livingston

Aaron Wheeler

Bill Boll
2nd Serve
2012