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Sling Blade is a 1996 American independent drama film directed by Billy Bob Thornton and starring Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, and Natalie Canerday. It is the story of Karl Childers, a man with an intellectual disability who is released from a mental institution after 25 years and struggles to cope with the outside world. Dwight Yoakam plays Doyle Hargraves, a local man who becomes Karl's friend and mentor.