A simple man. A difficult choice.
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.
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
Undertow
Shotgun Stories
Elmer Gantry
The Grace Card
August: Osage County
Duel in the Sun
Jezebel
The Machinist
Black Snake Moan
Burden
Wise Blood
Meet the Browns
The Road
Flesh and Bone
Come Sunday
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Cookie's Fortune
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Opposite of Sex