Synopsis
Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.
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Cast
- Katie HolmesMiss Meadows
- James Badge DaleSheriff
- Callan MulveySkylar
- Mary Kay PlaceMrs. Davenport
- Saidah Arrika EkulonaDoctor
- James Landry HébertDerek Weaver
- Kate LinderTrudy Navis
- Stephen BishopLt. Danny
- Jean SmartMother Meadows
- Harry ZinnMinister
Recommendations
- 90
Village Voice
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. - 70
The Dissolve
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. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Writer-director Karen Leigh Hopkins has lots of fun with this surreal set up, and only really loses the thread when reality intrudes. - 63
USA Today
It exists somewhere between serious character study and satirical fish-out-of-water story, never figuring out which it wants to be. - 50
Slant Magazine
Perhaps Karen Leigh Hopkins's intent was to subtly suggest the surreal aspects of the story, but ultimately she underplays her hand. - 50
Variety
An eventual retreat into conventional thriller terrain isn’t managed with much panache or tension, and a limp happily-ever-after sequence underlines the pic’s failure to make very much of the twisted-fairy-tale aspect that is its most distinctive element. - 50
The New York Times
The dark comedy (punctuated by the catchphrase “Toodle-oo”) doesn’t always come off, and the filmmaking is more off-kilter than necessary, with capricious camerawork and pacing. - 40
New York Daily News
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.
