One of two final movies completed by the warm, likeable actor Bill Paxton before his untimely passing a few weeks ago, Mean Dreams is a pastoral thriller about two teenagers on the run from a deranged parent, filmed on the farms and rural back roads of Canada in autumn that holds attention, rattles nerves, and moves briskly with realism and suspense. Not a great film in the same vein as Badlands and Pretty Poison, but a very good one that is well worth seeing.![]()
