Miss Meadows

Name: Miss Meadows
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: November 14, 2014
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 43

2014

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Entertainment One | Release Date: November 14, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Miss Meadows (Katie Holmes) is a sweet and proper elementary school teacher whose perfect manners and pretty floral dresses hide a dark secret: when she’s not teaching at the local elementary school or tending to her garden, she’s moonlighting as a gun-toting vigilante.

Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Serena Donadoni

Nov 11, 2014

Holmes and Dale are ideal together, turning a polite courtship and charged relationship (including a sex scene that's both giddy and profound) into a twisted, compelling expression of unconditional love. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Nov 13, 2014

Holmes’ performance helps Miss Meadows considerably: It’s so relentlessly upbeat and deliberately artificial that it admits no cynicism or judgment, and it makes the film daringly weird. Read full review

Brian Truitt

Nov 13, 2014

It exists somewhere between serious character study and satirical fish-out-of-water story, never figuring out which it wants to be. Read full review

Tomas Hachard

Nov 10, 2014

Perhaps Karen Leigh Hopkins's intent was to subtly suggest the surreal aspects of the story, but ultimately she underplays her hand. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Nov 13, 2014

Director-screenwriter Hopkins is unsuccessful in navigating the absurd storyline’s jarring tonal shifts, with the result that this kinder, gentler variation on Ms. 45 mainly emerges as off-puttingly bizarre. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Nov 13, 2014

When writer and director are one and the same, there’s always a risk that the project will suffer from a lack of perspective. Indeed, in helming her blackly comic indie Miss Meadows, Karen Leigh Hopkins fails to fulfill the potential of her own script. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Nov 13, 2014

What makes Miss Meadows egregiously awful is that it has no perspective whatsoever on vigilante justice. As an ostensible work of satire, it lacks bite, never truly questioning or complicating its heroine’s actions; the film isn’t even outrageous enough to be appalling (which paradoxically makes it appalling). Read full review

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CDAB

Sep 20, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Katie Holmes makes this film great to watch. Off beat but enjoyable to watch.… Expand

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royphishooh

Feb 1, 2015

Enjoyable fantasy, with a fine performance from Katie Holmes and a good supporting cast. The script could have been tighter and the storyline becomes a little predictable but it's a quirky enough ride.

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LeZee

Mar 9, 2017

Never fear... Miss Meadows is here.

This is not the film everybody was expecting. But not bad to try after coming to know it. It is a black comedy, about a young single woman, a substitute elementary school teacher who moved to a new neighbourhood. She has no limit for her imaginations. HerNever fear... Miss Meadows is here.

This is not the film everybody was expecting. But not bad to try after coming to know it. It is a black comedy, about a young single woman, a substitute elementary school teacher who moved to a new neighbourhood. She has no limit for her imaginations. Her world was full of wondrous, but there's a little dark secret too. Later, when she comes to face a big hurdle, how she's going to handle her new boyfriend who is a cop and from there where it heads was revealed.

It was a Katie Holmes' show. It was a short film, but she was always there, the camera always with her. I'm seeing her film after a long time. She looks a bit old for this role, but worked well. The supporting cast was okay though. That little girl from 'Girl Meets World, Ava, was good. The film looks okay for all ages, but slightly violent with killing and other crime exposing scenes. Especially it is not for young kids, despite the film theme looks a bit magical. So it should be PG13.

A decent writing and direction. The whole film was shot within two and half weeks. Because the story was simple, that takes place in the limited enclosures. So the experience of watching it was like a television film, but it is not. You might have seen some of the similar films, but still it is worth a watch. Not deliberately going for it, though when you ran out of the options.

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tvnewsguido

Nov 14, 2014

Flawed but entertaining.

It's hard to discuss this film's flaws without discussing what this movie could have been with tighter scripting and directing. Of course, you're here to seek guidance about the movie that is - not the better movie I have in my head. It's kinda fun. KatieFlawed but entertaining.

It's hard to discuss this film's flaws without discussing what this movie could have been with tighter scripting and directing. Of course, you're here to seek guidance about the movie that is - not the better movie I have in my head.

It's kinda fun. Katie Holmes delivers the goods and you'll likely enjoy yourself watching her.

I wouldn't pay full price again but would watch it on Netflix or Amazon Prime.… Expand

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