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Simple Values Are Not So Simple In The Deep South

Sling Blade

To this day, I still can’t quite understand why Billy Bob Thorton did not win a Best Actor Oscar for Sling Blade. I know, I know. They gave him Best Screenplay and they weren’t going to give him two Oscars, but damn it, he deserved it. His performance was one of the most iconic of the 1990s. In lieu of the Oscar, I chose the Arkansas natives’…