Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- arkansas
- repair shop
- southern
- death threat
- religious art
- father figure
- intellectual disability
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Christine Renee Ward — Melinda
- Sarah Boss — Marsha Dwiggins
- Kathy Sue Brown — Theresa Evans
- Wendell Rafferty — Melvin
- Bruce Hampton — Morris
- Directed
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Written
- Billy Bob Thornton
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 874 ratings
- Studio
- Miramax, The Shooting Gallery
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
