Released:
1996-08-30

Overview:
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.

Director:
Billy Bob Thornton

Runtime:
2h 15min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Billy Bob Thornton
  as
  Karl Childers
• 
  Dwight Yoakam
  as
  Doyle Hargraves
• 
  J. T. Walsh
  as
  Charles Bushman
• 
  John Ritter
  as
  Vaughan Cunningham
• 
  Lucas Black
  as
  Frank Wheatley