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.

• DirectorBilly Bob Thornton
• Release30 August 1996
• GenreDrama
• Duration2h 15m
• Budget$1,200,000
• Revenue$34,100,000
• Rate
  

  7.533
  800 reviews
• Productions

  Miramax, The Shooting Gallery