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Mean Dreams
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.

















7 January 1949, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

9 February 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada




28 February 1961, London, Ontario, Canada

2 November 1998, Houston, Texas, USA


22 August 1958, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

7 October 1978, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

27 March 2000, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

17 May 1955, Fort Worth, Texas, USA


March 28, 2017
Paxton, in one of his last performances, is a diabolical blend of fresh-faced wholesomeness and pure evil.
March 26, 2017
'Mean Dreams' follows two depressed teens -- and overflows with dismal scenes. But fine acting by everyone wins us over before it's done.
March 16, 2017
Nathan Morlando's "Mean Dreams" may use a time-honored premise - young lovers on the lam (see: "Badlands") - but it does so with such quiet, gently appealing assurance that it makes the template seem fresh again.
April 12, 2017
The story is driven by character, not coincidence, with the bonus of Paxton giving a powerfully nasty performance as the protective dad from hell.
March 24, 2017
"Mean Dreams" begins with an interesting premise, infused with a few chilling scenes, but the showdown at the end of the film featuring Paxton is not as intense as the situation demands.
March 17, 2017
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.
March 27, 2017
Here comes Nathan Morlando's Mean Dreams to remind us all that things are bad in the heartland of this here good ole U.S. of A.
March 16, 2017
A beautiful, dangerous picture of rural America with echoes of Terrence Malick.
March 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.
March 20, 2017
Not a great film in the same vein as Badlands and Pretty Poison, but a very good one that is well worth seeing.
March 16, 2017
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.