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Synopsis
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.
Cast
Billy Bob Thornton·Karl Childers
Dwight Yoakam·Doyle Hargraves
J.T. Walsh·Charles Bushman
John Ritter·Vaughan Cunningham
Lucas Black·Frank Wheatley
Natalie Canerday·Linda Wheatley
James Hampton·Jerry Woolridge
Robert Duvall·Karl's Father
Rick Dial·Bill Cox
Brent Briscoe·Scooter Hodges