Sling Blade

Sling Blade (1996)

Plot summary

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Simple minded Karl is a good guy who is mentally slow. As a teenager he finds his mother apparently being raped by the neighborhood bully Jessie Dixon. Karl becomes enraged and picks up a sling blade that is on the porch and hits Jessie on the head twice killing him. Karl's mother is upset that Karl killed Jessie. Realizing that his mother was willing engaged in consensual sex with Jessie, Karl becomes further enraged and turns the sling blade on her killing her as well. He is sentenced to a mental institute. He is released years later. He befriends a young boy and his mother. Before long he decides that the boy's abusive step father needs to die. He ends up back in the institution.

Revealing mistake: Looks like Frosty Cream is actually a Dairy Queen. When Karl is ordering, the menu board behind the employee lists items such as "DQ Sandwich", "Dilly Bar", and a spot where you see part of DQ's old motto.

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More mistakes in Sling Blade

Marsha Dwiggins: Where will he go?
Dr. Jerry Woolridge: I think he's going back to Millsburg.
Marsha Dwiggins: Will he be supervised?
Dr. Jerry Woolridge: About as much as everyone else, I guess.

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