VOD REVIEWS: Nathan Morlando ’s MEAN DREAMS offers up a classic story of star-crossed young lovers with a swan song performance by Bill Paxton
MEAN DREAMS not only isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel, it revels in the trappings of its poor, farm country setting, story tropes, and the familiar character archetypes it puts forward. The film banks on the romantic dynamic between the two leads (Sophie Nelisse, and Josh Wiggins), as well as the villain role embodied by Paxton..