"I can't even have a head-on collision in peace"

After Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in a second movie, Daddy and Them.

The cast is improbable–Billy Bob, Laura Dern, Brenda Blethyn, Ben Affleck, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jim Varney, Andy Fucking Griffith–and the family they portray is both grotesque and hilarious.

I'm amazed that I can't find any information about why this movie, filmed in '98 or '99, was released direct to cable in 2001 and then didn't make it to DVD until late last year.