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Mean Dreams

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A 15-year-old boy steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves. While her violent and corrupt cop father hunts them down, they embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.
Mean Dreams

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Critics Consensus

Mean Dreams enlivens its familiar premise with rich details, strong performances from a talented cast playing fully realized characters, and sensitive work from director Nathan Morlando.

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Rex Reed Observer Mar 20, 2017
3/4
Not a great film in the same vein as Badlands and Pretty Poison, but a very good one that is well worth seeing. Go to Full Review
Nick Allen RogerEbert.com Mar 17, 2017
1.5/4
One of those sparse projects where you wonder what excited the filmmakers through each stage of the production process, and why the answer to that question isn't more obvious. Go to Full Review
Tricia Olszewski TheWrap Mar 16, 2017
Son Lux's percussive and atonal score combined with the kids constantly looking over their shoulders lend their escapes a sense of immediacy and danger. Go to Full Review
Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Feb 3, 2021
3/5
Echoes of Badlands, Terrence Malick's tale of young love on the run, hang heavy over Mean Dreams. Go to Full Review
Jorge Ignacio Castillo The Canadian Crew Jan 28, 2020
2/5
Outside beautiful fall scenery, there nothing particularly moving about Mean Dreams... Go to Full Review
Angelo Muredda Cinema Scope Nov 9, 2017
Familiarity doesn't always yield tedium, but it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for Mean Dreams' sleepy regionalist remix of genre tropes and images. Go to Full Review
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George S Oct 27, 2018 A talented cast elevates this all-too-familiar plot into a suspenseful thriller that is worth watching.
Kylo L Apr 4, 2018 The script features too many perplexing character decisions to be good, but it's a well made movie that moves briskly enough to keep it fun. See more
Albus R Nov 7, 2017 Wow, such a low score for such a great movie. Had me on the edge of my seat for most of it.
Leia R Oct 13, 2017 Mean Dreams not only has a great cast as also counts with a thrilling and breathless plot, a sharp story and a unnerving soundtrack. Mean Dreams is probably one of the best movies of 2017. It mixes unpredictability with wit and with a powerful realistic story, having the capatity to teletransport the spectator to the action scenes making him living them, that was what I was feeling while watching it. See more
Hagrid S Aug 4, 2017 People can be divided into two neat categories: a) evil people, people of action, who take what they want; and b) good people, people who mind their own business, keep their heads down and go about their business. Is it possible to break that mould, asks Mean Dreams, and be both a man of action, and virtuous? Marvelously acted by Paxton, & two young 'uns, Mean Dreams is an exploration well worth your time. See more
Draco W Jul 22, 2017 Sometimes you just want to see a story about what grandpa called in the last century "no-count low-lifes," similar to today's 21st century rural Red Staters. After all, that's how JLaw arrived on the Big Time screen. This time its Josh Wiggins, what Hillary Swank's son would've looked & been like had she had one. The flick is slow, picking-up now & again. But it holds interest. The problem is that by the end there are way too many loose ends and - in the current "cool" (not) of leaving things hanging - they stay that way. This flick keeps gen'ing more questions than it can answer. Had the pace been picked-up a bit, there might've been time to tie a few; but no ... Still, it's good to catch a rural "no-count low-life" movie where, and this is a plus, one of those no-counts is a bad cop who ... no, that'd be a spoiler. There's another a loose end that remains untied. What the heck DID happen when you hear those gun shots from under the tarp? We'll never know. See more
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Movie Info

Synopsis A 15-year-old boy steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves. While her violent and corrupt cop father hunts them down, they embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.
Director
Nathan Morlando
Producer
William Woods, Allison Black
Screenwriter
Kevin Coughlin, Ryan Grassby
Distributor
Vertical Entertainment
Production Co
Woods Entertainment, Vertical Entertainment
Rating
R (Some Violence and Language)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 17, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 18, 2017
Runtime
1h 45m
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