25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".

• Billy Bob Thornton
• Molly Ringwald
• J.T. Walsh
• Jefferson Mays
• Suzanne Cryer
• Abby Abernathy
• Brent Briscoe
• Otto Coelho