Lonely girl who befriends slow man who is staying at their motel

A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

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.

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".

A lonely guy decides to take matters into his own hands when his best friend gets a new girlfriend.

Klava, a lonely woman who is bored with her life, posts an advertisement seeking a male companion. Valentin, a retired circus performer, responds to her message and the two enter a dubious relationship.

When a weird-acting girl draws a young man's attention in the inn.

A taxi driver on the verge of losing his home shares a fleeting connection with an isolated foreign student.

A lonely and restless widow plays host to a much younger man she met on the internet.