7.5 / 10
(783 votes)
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.
United States of America
Drama
135 minutes
1996
Billy Bob Thornton
Miramax,
The Shooting Gallery
$1,200,000
$34,100,000
2007
6.8
2001
6.5
1990
5.8
2002
5.9
1942
6.2
2022
10.0
2001
6.6
2014
5.0
2007
7.1
2007
6.3
1955
3.5
2001
8.0
1992
7.2
2018
8.0
2007
6.4
1993
7.9
1980
7.1
2005
6.6
2018
6.6
1991
7.6