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- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
Summary Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love.
Directed By: Nathan Morlando
Written By: Kevin Coughlin, Ryan Grassby
- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
Mean Dreams
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6.9
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Summary Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love.
Directed By: Nathan Morlando
Written By: Kevin Coughlin, Ryan Grassby
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
64
64% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
29% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
While the plot often travels familiar paths and even the impressive camerawork is evocative of other films, Mean Dreams has a few story tricks up its sleeve — and it has Bill Paxton, playing one of the most odious characters he ever played, and doing it with absolute mastery.
While Mean Dreams stumbles once or twice, it is a thrillingly dark fable draped in beautiful images and a layered, menacing performance from Paxton.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
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Spiritual questions and thoughts on the importance of flesh-and-blood relationships are raised, but the strength of the you-can-run-but-you-can’t-hide drama is the dewy charisma of the two young co-stars.
Featuring one of Bill Paxton’s final performances, Mean Dreams is a painful reminder of the actor’s great talents.
As the stakes are heightened, the filmmakers too often short-change dramatic verisimilitude with movie-ish cliché, implausible plotting and cumbersome dialogue.
The join-the-bullet-holes nature of Mean Dreams' storytelling would be less of a problem if the characterization were a little more textured, but for all the picturesque anguish on display, the febrile messiness of actual human life is little in evidence.
As for Paxton, he enters the story with an edge, establishing the authority and revealing sensitivity of a single father with a powerful job. It’s not a career-topping role by any means but it is a reminder of how the late actor could take on a role with sincerity and breathe some type of life into it.
Production Company
Woods Entertainment,
Euclid 431 Pictures,
Tip-Top Productions,
Sugar Shack Productions,
Project AMB,
JoBro Productions & Film Finance,
Vigilante Productions,
Coronel Group,
Scythia Films,
Téléfilm Canada,
Northern Ontario Heritage Fund,
Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC)
Release Date Mar 17, 2017
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Tagline The law won't protect you
Awards
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
