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Mean Dreams

2016

Nathan Morlando

Josh Wiggins, Sophie Nélisse, Bill Paxton, Colm Feore ...

6.0

88

Thriller. Drama 'Mean Dreams' is a thriller about a fifteen-year-old boy who steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves while her corrupt cop father hunts them down. This coming-of-age fable brings together the desperation of life on the run and the beauty and wonder of first love.

	Media	Author	Review
		Rex Reed The New York Observer	"A pastoral thriller (...) The film is aided by the enormous charisma of its two young leads and the obvious influence of Bill Paxton (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Kimber Myers Los Angeles Times	"A beautiful, dangerous picture of rural America with echoes of Terrence Malick"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Mean Dreams' combines a poetic tale of backwoods crime with first-rate perfomances (...) an apt label for a movie that transforms Malick’s lyricism into thriller material"
		Tricia Olszewski The Wrap	"Morlando makes a concerted effort to inject dynamism and emotion into the telling of 'Mean Dreams', but fights a losing battle against the cliched writing and some risible plotting"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"The shadow of 'Badlands' falls a little too long over Nathan Morlando's initially promising but fatally derivative teens-on-the-run thriller"

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