miss meadows
katie holmes in
miss meadows .
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katie holmes is a prim teacher with the deadly aim in' miss meadows.'
katie holmes stars as a proper elementary school teacher who moonlights as a vigilante in' miss meadows.'
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katie holmes stars as tap - dancing vigilante with a sunny demeanor in the cleveland - filmed
miss meadows .
( entertainment one )
entertainment one films has acquired u. s. and canada distribution rights to katie holmes ’ action vehicle “miss meadows” for a fall release .
katie holmes is showing off her tap dancing skills in her new movie,' miss meadows.' video shot by todd plitt for usa today .
don’t be fooled by the gloves, anklets and mary janes. katie holmes, in “miss meadows, ” never leaves home without a ballistic accessory .
united kingdom «miss meadows» in the uk has no theatrical release date. the movie released on dvd and blu - ray on july 27, 2015 .
miss meadows marks rob' s first divergence from his 83 - year - old pal, who isn' t starring in his subsequent three movies either .
' miss meadows' aims to teach you a lesson one minute she' s teaching first - graders, the next she' s gunning down criminals with a dainty firearm. katie holmes' title teacher in' miss meadows' is analogous to the double nature of the quirky, uneven drama. check out this story on urltoken urltoken
miss meadows
was shot primarily in tremont, a favorite of location scouts for its mix of homes and churches as well as views of industrial grit and soaring bridges .
mary meadows (katie holmes) vigilantism stems from the senseless death of her mother mrs. meadows (jean smart) who was killed in front of her as a child .
prim schoolteacher miss meadows (katie holmes) is not entirely what she appears. well - mannered, sweet, and caring, yes, but underneath the candy - sweet exterior hides the soul of a vigilante, taking it upon herself to right the wrongs in this cruel world by whatever means necessary. things get complicated, however, when miss meadows gets romantically entangled with the town sheriff (james badge dale) and her steadfast moral compass is thrown off, begging the question :
who is the real miss meadows and what is she hiding ?
the same applies to her acting. in her latest endeavor, miss meadows, holmes is a teacher who, in her downtime, rights the wrongs of society and who couldn' t care less about public opinion. when told by a neighbor that she might wind up an old maid, miss meadows chooses to construe that statement as one about housecleaning, not marriage .
' i think miss meadows is one who has a very high standard of what manners are, ’ katie said. ‘she lives in a way that is of an older time period .
entertainment one films has today released the trailer to writer / director karen leigh hopkins’ miss meadows, starring katie holmes. check it out in the player below, courtesy of e! online .
miss meadows, played by katie holmes is a substitute teacher and a full time vigilante. seems like a contradiction in terms, but we find out her true calling in the first scene .
james badge dale, mary kay place and jean smart also star in “miss meadows, ” directed and written by karen leigh hopkins and produced by “crazy heart” producers eric brenner and rob carliner .
katie takes on the lead role in the drama miss meadows, as a prim and proper elementary school teacher who moonlights as a vigilante, alongside james badge dale and australian actor callan mulvey .
miss meadows is an interesting character study of someone just trying to make the world a better place through murder, and questioning whether her methods may actually be the cause of the world' s decay .
the lead characters are often only referred to by their surname (miss meadows) or profession (sheriff) but dialogue exchanges in the film reveal their first names to be mary and mike, respectively .
in the sex scene, the shots of the back of miss meadows have all her hair hanging down her back. the shots of her face have much of her hair pulled over her left shoulder .
miss meadows — her preferred manner of address — is a glove - wearing substitute teacher who won’t hesitate to quick - draw her pistol when confronted with maniacs in her suburban world. as her mother affirms in their telephone chats, god needs a little help sweeping away the evildoers. but miss meadows is in danger of being exposed when the wholesome local sheriff (a winning james badge dale) courts her .
united states distributed by eone «miss meadows» in the united states dvd and blu - ray release date was set for january 27, 2015. available for rent from netflix and redbox from february 24, 2015 .
mrs khan is assistant headteacher at trumpington meadows with the responsibility for teaching & learning across the federation .
tinsley meadows primary school is part of the five rivers multi academy trust (an exempt charity) registered in england with company number 10070417 at tinsley meadows primary academy, norborough road, sheffield s9 1sg .
miss meadows is a substitute teacher who loves tap dancing and poetry. she' s prissy and uptight with definite ideas of right and wrong. she believes in justice and the rights of citizens to be unafraid. when a man pulls up next to her in his truck, miss meadows is faced with a disgusting man who propositions her. she pulls out a gun and shoots him. after, she tap dances down the street. miss meadows has a dark past, and that' s made her determined to take the law into her own hands if the police don' t do what' s right. nobody should be afraid, except criminals .
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around the world «miss meadows» scheduled worldwide dvd release dates: july 27, 2015 (uk), november 30, 2015 (south africa), march 4, 2015 (nz), march 4, 2015 (australia) .
the small budget comedy
miss meadows ,
directed by karen leigh hopkins and produced by mark johnson and rob carliner, started filming today in cleveland' s university circle area. it is expected to be here for about a month .
while miss meadows begins a risky relationship with the local sheriff (james badge dale) trying to catch her, she is stalked by an ex - convict named skylar (callan mulvey) whom she suspects may put her students in danger .
' the actress plays the title character, miss meadows, who is ‘a schoolteacher by day, but she also believes in being this vigilante and hurting those people who hurt children and others in society, ’ she recently told the wrap .
one minute she' s teaching first - graders, the next she' s gunning down criminals with a dainty firearm. katie holmes' title teacher in' miss meadows' is analogous to the double nature of the quirky, uneven drama .
in
miss meadows ,
katie holmes wears vintage flower print dresses, drives a 1956 metropolitan nash, dotes on the grade - schoolers she substitute teaches, corrects grammar and, when given the opportunity, kills offenders she considers blots on society .
miss meadows ,
which was filmed in cleveland in august 2013, stars the perfectly cast katie holmes. she brings just the right touches of inane chirpiness and lethal lunacy to this good - girl vigilante, without stretching too far over the edge .
it took writer / director karen leigh hopkins 14 years to get the film made, and having holmes come on board was the tipping point. she' s found her perfect miss meadows, a woman whose exterior has little to do with her inner life .
meanwhile, the couple’s relationship proceeds to the point where she becomes pregnant and he proposes marriage. but as a series of phone calls with her aphorism - spouting mother (jean smart) eventually makes clear, miss meadows’ grasp of reality is becoming ever more tenuous .
near bottom of end credits: the polly klaas foundation wishes to thank katie holmes, karen leigh hopkins and the producers of
miss meadows
for contributing to the polly klaas foundation artist in residence program - helping children to explore and engage in the performing arts .
films from
the deer hunter
to
captain america: the winter soldier
have found tremont visually enticing, and
miss meadows
also peered inside the tremont montessori school on west 10 th street, where meadows teaches a first - grade class. (there are also snippets of the downtown skyline seen from the edgewater park area, and the university circle united methodist church. )
it' s a lot to ask of any actress to walk that line between schoolmarm parody and gun - toting badass, because miss meadows is the kind of character who exists only in movies untroubled by imagination. the real problem, however, is that her creator, karen leigh hopkins, making her feature directing debut, is never entirely clear who or what miss meadows is from scene to scene: funny? (she' s not .) scary? (not that, either .) sad? (well, you feel for holmes. … )
beneath her do - gooder, old - fashioned exterior, newly - arrived substitute primary teacher miss meadows (holmes) moonlights as a violent vigilante who murders local criminals. although the kids warm to her teaching methods, the local police are in hot pursuit of the suburban vigilante .
prim schoolteacher miss meadows is not entirely what she appears. well - mannered, sweet, and caring, yes, but underneath the candy - sweet exterior hides the soul of a vigilante, taking it upon herself to right the wrongs in this cruel world by whatever means necessary .
miss meadows' modus operandi is set in the opening scene, when her stroll is interrupted by a violent guy looking for some action. rudeness doesn' t work in her book, and even when he pulls a gun on her, she coolly fires a bullet to the head .
i' m so lazy. i really enjoy acting. it' s a hard business and — i don' t know. i' m driven by challenges and opportunities,'' says the 35 - year - old actress, who stars in the drama miss meadows, opening friday .
when holmes veers from that weirdness, though, miss meadows drags and struggles on the whole. it' s her party and she' ll shoot if she wants to, but both the film and its killer cross between dirty harry and beaver cleaver' s mom are more watchable the more eccentric she is .
the contrast between the real world and miss meadows' throwback personality is entertainingly striking and gives hopkins an interesting canvas to paint her darkly funny slice of life. cute birds, deer and squirrels take notice of her as if she' s a disney cartoon, another dichotomous quality when compared with her side gig serving up justice .
miss meadows is a school teacher that arrives in a new town every year. she may have impeccable manners and grace but she is not entirely what she appears to be. underneath the candy - sweet exterior hides a gun - toting vigilante. her mission is to right the wrongs in this cruel world by whatever means necessary .
entertainment one films has acquired u. s. and canada distribution rights to katie holmes’ action vehicle “miss meadows” for a fall release. it’s the first deal made by berry meyerowitz since he was brought on as eone’s president of u. s. film and distribution as part of a recent deal to integrate his phase 4 films into [ … ]
miss meadows is a school teacher that arrives in a new town every year. she may have impeccable manners and grace but she is not entirely what she appears to be. underneath the candy - sweet exterior hides a gun - toting vigilante. her mission is to right the wrongs in this cruel world by whatever means necessary. (c) eone
unfortunately, she is stuck in this bland, tiresome film. billed as either a
dark comedy
or a
drama ,
it is underwritten and poorly executed .
miss meadows
is eternally out of sync, struggling to find its tone and vying to live up to what could have been a clever, genre - busting premise .
middling “miss meadows” blends black comedy, character study and thriller elements into a mixture that doesn’t quite gel, though it’s watchable enough. katie holmes plays a secretive newcomer to a lower - middle - class neighborhood whose bad people begin suffering deaths at the hand of a mysterious vigilante — as they did, we soon glean, in her previous [ … ]
miss buckerfield has main responsibility for inclusion. she has taught in schools across essex and cambridgeshire and has a specialism in inclusion and special educational needs. in her previous post, she was involved in pioneering multi - agency national safeguarding procedures. miss buckerfield joined us as assistant headteacher in september 2010, and also brings to the federation her experience as a county athlete for four sports !
katie holmes' title teacher in miss meadows (* * ½ out of four; unrated; opens friday in theaters and video on demand) is analogous to the double nature of writer / director karen leigh hopkins' quirky, uneven drama. it exists somewhere between serious character study and satirical fish - out - of - water story, never figuring out which it wants to be .
miss meadows, a substitute elementary school teacher fond of using phrases like “toodle - oo, ” attracts the attention of the local sheriff (james badge dale) when she stops her vintage car in the middle of a bridge to prevent running over an injured toad. he soon asks out the seemingly genteel young woman for a picnic during which they spontaneously break out into loose - limbed dancing .
at one point, a woman suspected of a killing spree is referred to as
a' pulp fiction' mary poppins .
that would have been a good movie .
miss meadows
is not so much tarantino - meets - disney as it is coen - brothers - meet - disney, though it is light - years removed from anything produced by quentin, joel, ethan or walt .
holmes is excellent in capturing meadows' most oddball qualities. she randomly breaks out in tap - dancing fits, giggles during sex and is head - shakingly frustrating to her neighbors: when one wants to set her up on a date with a dentist and worries that she' ll be
an old maid ,
meadows replies ,
i have no intentions on starting domestication training .
between “serial mom” and “god bless america, ” not to mention the moonlighting criminals who populate binge television, vigilantes in sheep’s clothing are familiar by now. “miss meadows” gives the old perverse routine a whirl with a weirdly soul - baring katie holmes as a prim - and - proper gunlady, but despite an eccentric streak (which turns erratic), the script doesn’t allow much room for the premise to take flight .
it must have gone over big at the pitch meeting, but the idea of a “pulp fiction mary poppins” blithely blowing away a rogue’s gallery of despicable criminals doesn’t work at all in miss meadows, the directorial debut by screenwriter karen leigh hopkins (stepmom). starring katie holmes, the film receiving its world premiere at the tribeca film festival doesn’t have nearly the aim of its oddball title character in terms of hitting its satirical targets .
ms. holmes brings not only suitable dimples and nerve to her role but also an abject panic and sadness (and maybe madness) quivering beneath the grammatically correct surfaces of miss meadows. the character also emerges as more than an officious schoolmarm, for she picks and chooses from the platter of old - fashioned values: driving a respectable old roadster and tending a perfect garden but singing in a church choir for fun, not faith .
we wanted miss meadows to look very pleasing to the children. i heard someone say they dressed for their child because they realized they were part of a memory. it was really moving when i read that. i should do that! throw out the sweats! i better get this right. i' m part of a memory ,
says holmes, clad on this day in super - sexy michael kors leather pants .
when first seen, miss meadows does indeed seem like a character out of a disney movie, literally tap - dancing on the sidewalk while clad in a frilly dress — brenda abbandandolo ’s girly costumes well convey the character’s essence — and joyously interacting with the birds and small animals she encounters. but when she’s rudely propositioned and threatened at gunpoint by a creep driving by, she whips a tiny revolver out of her well - accessorized purse and calmly shoots him dead .
miss barham started her teaching career in the early years foundation stage and has since taught children in both key stage one and key stage two. after teaching in cambridge for a number of years, she left to teach in a different setting and taught for three years at a british, international school in the middle east. she held a ‘lead learner’ role and has led science, pshe (personal, social, health, economic education) and seal (social, emotional aspects of learning). in a previous role, she worked with the county pshe service and represented a leading school for seal. miss barham is assistant headteacher at trumpington meadows with responsibility for inclusion and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development .
as is clear from the opening scene, this is a film that relies on the juxtaposition of its titular character’s candy - coated personality and trigger happy vigilantism. on the one hand, miss mary meadows is the perfect picture of innocence and goodness, spending her time weeding the garden, preparing tea and crumpets and spouting moralistic maxims as rhythmically as the clicks of her tap - dancing shoes. on the other hand, she spends the film administering violent retribution against those who refuse to respect the freedoms enjoyed by everyday folk. what’s debatable, however, is whether or not the film does enough to make us side wholly with meadows in either of these aspects; or indeed, whether we are supposed to .
the code name for the film is
tootaloo ,
and although it is not on the scale of the recent shoots for
captain america: the winter soldier ,
and
draft day ,
it does share one thing with
draft day
: signs. the yellow signs reading
fpp
that were used for the kevin costner comedy - drama, and direct cast and crew to film locations and parking lots, have been recycled for
miss meadows .
in terms of performances, katie holmes works exceptionally well with a script that, at times, is clumsy. the character of miss meadows is often irritating in her constantly positive outlook, but also her audacity in extolling the virtues of goodness while committing numerous acts of murder in cold blood. were it not for holmes’s proficiency in putting across the inner turmoil of the protagonist and treating a wholly unbelievable character with subtlety and humanity, the film might not stand up well at all .
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synopsis: katie holmes plays a sweet, caring substitute teacher who moves into a crime - ridden neighbourhood when she takes up her new post at a local elementary school. her eccentric, mary poppins demeanour and kind - heartedness soon catches the attention of local sheriff mike, played by james badge dale. unbeknownst to the sheriff, miss meadows leads a double life as a vigilante, administering justice down the barrel of a gun to those who she sees as a threat to the decent, law - abiding citizens of the community .
while holmes’s character certainly struggles with the ethical dilemmas raised through her actions, we the audience are ultimately encouraged to side with her. the narrative may attempt to question the actions of the protagonist – not least through her conversations with sheriff mike regarding the likelihood of criminal rehabilitation – but ultimately, and certainly in the film’s closing moments, the viewer is encouraged to support miss meadows and her unconstitutional (to evoke the ubiquitous americanism) distribution of justice. as she herself says: “i think it’s okay to break the rules sometimes. ”
cleveland, ohio – mary meadows is a cutie. she wears floral print dresses, reads poetry while she' s walking, communes with bluebirds in the trees and likes to tap dance. tap shoes, in fact, are part of her daily ensemble .
moviegoers who are slaves to genre aren’t going to have much love for the legitimately out - of - control “ miss meadows. ” this whatsit begins with a prim and proper maiden talking to cgi squirrels and birds before firing a pistol into the throat of an obvious sex offender in the middle of a sunny suburban street. the victim isn’t sleazy enough to be funny, the violence is too glib to be serious, and there’s, overall, a jarring divide occurring here. immediately, the knee - jerk reaction is to say this doesn’t work .
aside from holmes’s performance, two other aspects of the film stand out. firstly, director karen leigh hopkins’s astute sense of pacing. the narrative moves quickly and succinctly, wasting no time in putting the plot into action, introducing the central love story and asking questions regarding its moralistic subject matter. secondly, miss meadows’s relationship with her mother creates some interesting and entertaining dialogue, providing some of the script’s strongest moments. however, to delve deeper into why this aspect of the film is especially interesting would be to give away one of the film’s major plot twists .
miss meadows is probably a film that works better on paper, and perhaps the rushed feel of its execution – as well as the disappointingly haphazard conclusion – is due to its having been filmed in just over two weeks. however, this fast pacing does give the film a decidedly ‘indie’ feel to it and more often than not works to its advantage. it will, at the very least, help it achieve cult status, but the overall feeling is that katie holmes is the film’s saviour, bringing clarity and order to a story that is, while well - meaning, often confused and disjointed .
it doesn’t help matters that we find out our heroine has already been established offscreen as a bit of an odd duck. miss meadows (katie holmes) is already comfortably ensconced in this small town as a first grade substitute teacher, having uneasily bumped up against her neighbors and coworkers more than a few times before we’ve met. her likes are tap dancing, flowers, and proper diction, and her dislikes are apparently the sort of easy - to - spot freaks you see committing crimes in movies moreso than real life. the vibe is john waters, though waters would likely make those convicts his leads .
middling “miss meadows” blends black comedy, character study and thriller elements into a mixture that doesn’t quite gel, though it’s watchable enough. katie holmes plays a secretive newcomer to a lower - middle - class neighborhood whose bad people begin suffering deaths at the hand of a mysterious vigilante — as they did, we soon glean, in her previous places of residence. the premise holds more promise than karen leigh hopkins’ screenplay and direction ultimately deliver, resulting in a polished but unmemorable minor item destined for decent home - format sales. eone is opening it on single los angeles and new york screens this friday, simultaneous with vod launch .
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however, the great and violent lengths to which the education - minded vigilante goes are only fleetingly explained through grainy flashbacks. she' s earnest to a fault — she even calls her mom (jean smart )
mother dear
— yet meadows mainly stays a maddening mystery to her fellow townspeople and the audience .
that' s why the role of miss meadows is ideal for her. she' s no mother, but she' s looking out for a classroom of students. all holmes had to do was play up the vanilla personality so it became a caricature of herself. holmes' approach to the lighthearted, dark - humored belle - like character is endearing. there' s a difference between a plot with an absurd character and an absurd plot. holmes plays the former with aplomb. and, it' s because of this role that holmes appears to finally have found her footing in hollywood. it' s a shame the movie itself wasn' t more character - driven. maybe then holmes' star would begin to shine brighter .
the cast is not the problem. in addition to holmes, the talented james badge dale is on hand as a sheriff with a thing for ms. meadows. jean smart, as her mother, and mary kay place, as a neighbor, also make brief appearances. more of dale, smart and place would have helped, but there is not much in the script for them .
well, i was wrong. as meadows enters into a tentative romance with a local law enforcement person (james badge dale) who is, surprise, in charge of the curious case of a female vigilante, and meadows begins a cat - and - mouse game with a creepy neighbor who’s also a recently released convict, the movie goes for something darker than the weird mess it had previously realized, and becomes replete with dumb “you’re - just - like - me” dialogue exchanges. the earnestness brings the movie from mildly irritating pastiche status to actively awful, and that is all she wrote. “it’s like ‘pulp fiction’ meets ‘mary poppins, ’” a character observes of the vigilante ongoings about midway through the picture. in fact, the riskiest thing this movie does is to invoke two different movies that one would be entirely better off watching .
the slightly bland surface holmes has too frequently deployed as an adult actress actually works well for this exaggeratedly nice character composited from ’50s sitcom housewives, miss poppins and other retro fantasy figures. it’s one of her better performances. still, one can’t help wondering what satirically creepy vibes a more risk - taking actor might have eked from mary’s archaic speech patterns and other idiosyncrasies — or how they might have suggested her underlying pathos without simply bursting into tears every so often, as holmes does .
mary meadows is as old - school as a linoleum floor and a walking, talking anachronism in every way — from her retro wardrobe to her greeting (
toodle - oo !
) to the car she drives (a 1956 nash metropolitan). a substitute teacher still new in town, mary draws weird looks from neighbors with her impeccable manners and odd demeanor, but she still has a way with kids, as well as with the town sheriff (james badge dale) .
mrs calverley joined the federation in 2011 and was appointed as an assistant headteacher in 2015. her expertise lies in key stage one, gaining experience in schools in the locality as well as teaching in key stage one at both fawcett and trumpington meadows. she passionately believes in providing a creative curriculum inspiring all children to learn and igniting the fire to become life - long learners. as part of her role, she supports teachers to strengthen their practise through professional development. mrs calverley is based at fawcett and is responsible for teaching and learning in key stage one across the federation .
mary meadows (holmes) is introduced walking down a leafy residential street, communing with local birdies and breaking into an occasional tap dance — drawing immediate parallels to mary poppins and other disneyfied do - gooders that the film might have developed further, to more wittily subversive ends, than it manages. this mary’s chipper yet prim composure isn’t ruffled a whit when a loutish guy in a passing truck begins harassing her. once he reveals still worse intentions by pulling a gun, she simply pulls out her own, blows the nasty man away, and continues traipsing on down the lane .
for one thing, there is little attempt to explore the complexities of criminal behaviour. these are not petty criminals neglected by society. most of the crimes carried out by the film’s villains are sexual in nature, making the audience – and rightly so – feel utter revulsion and in no two minds as to the guilt of meadows’s victims. during the film’s only non - sexual crime, the plea of insanity for murder is worryingly criticised as nothing but a ‘get out of jail free’ card played by morally bankrupt defence attorneys. even sheriff mike, who we might expect to have a more conventional attitude to the administering of justice, struggles to wholeheartedly condemn the actions of his new - found sweetheart .
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the earnestness brings the movie from mildly irritating pastiche status to actively awful, and that is all she wrote .
it exists somewhere between serious character study and satirical fish - out - of - water story, never figuring out which it wants to be .
despite an eccentric streak (which turns erratic), the script doesn' t allow much room for the premise to take flight .
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) .
it' s a shame the odd - for - oddball' s sake of a plot had to overshadow holmes' charming performance, for this could' ve been the role that kicked her relatively safe career into gear .
... struggles to find a consistent tone, and doesn' t offer sufficient context to give emotional resonance to a female - empowerment fantasy that ultimately feels too detached from reality .
isn' t a terribly convincing movie, but it does feature a refreshingly twisted turn from star katie holmes .
it' s so relentlessly upbeat and deliberately artificial that it admits no cynicism or judgment, and it makes the film daringly weird .
in the film, holmes plays 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 .
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unlike its deadly, gun - toting heroine, this darkly satirical comedy misfires. twitter
katie holmes plays a sweet, well - mannered schoolteacher who blows away bad guys in karen leigh hopkins' dark comedy .
meanwhile, the small town’s body count keeps rising, thanks to the recent release of hundreds of prisoners from a nearby prison due to overcrowding. coming upon a madman who’s just massacred the patrons of a fast - food restaurant, her response when he threatens to kill her is to coolly say “that is so not an option” before pumping him full of bullets. she later dispatches a pedophiliac priest and gets involved in a dangerous cat - and - mouse game with a recently freed child abuser (chillingly played by callan mulvey) .
holmes, using her doe - eyed adorableness to provocative effect, delivers a fine, startlingly off - kilter performance, and dale is highly appealing as the gentle, accordion - playing sheriff. but 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 .
executive producers: katie holmes, karen leigh hopkins, sandra siegal, grant guthrie, jeff steen, darrel casalino, david harfield, gary m. pollak, jarod becker, evan israel brenner, jay carr, mark b. johnson, joan sobel
cleveland, ohio - - katie holmes garnered massive world - wide publicity for her split with tom cruise last year, but she is quietly slipping into cleveland to shoot a new film .
the toledo native has been busy since her divorce. she has already spent the summer working on paul dalio' s
mania days
in new york, and endured the inevitable tabloid headlines about an alleged budding romance with co - star luke kirby .
katie holmes will be in cleveland for the next month to work on her latest film .
near the corner of east 107th street and chester avenue, trucks and movie equipment were parked in the lots at judson manor and at university circle united methodist church, where the crew was shooting this evening .
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i saw this at the tribeca film fest and i really liked it. sure, the plot is clumsy at parts but it is all part of the fun. it' s actually hard to describe this film since it has such a unique tone. think mary poppins meets john waters. it' s funny, dark, campy, and it' s very out there. i have to say my favorite thing in the film was katie holmes. this type of role you just do not expect from her and i hope she continues to do characters outside of her comfort zone because she certainly has the chops to bring them to justice. this is the best performance i' ve seen from her. the movie got a very generous applaud at the screening i attended at the festival but i don' t think this will be a mainstream hit. i think it will eventually find its audience though. i wouldn' t be surprised if in the future it joins the list of most respected transgressive cult films .
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after which she grows slightly agitated, as a bit of blood spurting from the fatal wound she has delivered to her victim has gotten on to her dress. a phone call follows; holmes’ character, the title character of the movie, asks her mother (jean smart) again what’s the best organic way to remove a bloodstain from a valued piece of clothing .
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karen leigh hopkins' middling black comedy - cum - thriller stars katie holmes as a latter - day mary poppins with a sideline in' death wish' vigilante - ism .
katie holmes, james badge dale, callan mulvey, jean smart, mary kay place, ava kolker, stephen bishop, kate linder, james landry hebert, james keane, graham beckel, gregory allen smith, anna moravcik .
however, he and his department are already on the trail of the vigilante one colleague describes as “kind of a ‘pulp fiction’ mary poppins. ” he’s increasingly worried about his own mary’s possible involvement in these killings. meanwhile, she’s worried about the arrival in the area of creepy parolee skylar (callan mulvey), whom sheriff identifies as a past child molester; once that character is introduced, it’s obvious where the narrative will be heading. 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 .
dale aside, the supporting turns are solid but hemmed in by one - note roles and (for the child actors) some over - precocious dialogue. cleveland - shot pic is smoothly handled in tech and design departments .
reviewed online, san francisco, nov. 11, 2014. running time: 88 min .
production: an eone films release of a myriad pictures presentation in association with rob carliner productions and wiretap films. produced by rob carliner. eric brenner. executive producers, katie holmes, karen leigh hopkins, sandra siegal, grant guthrie, darrel casalino, jeff steen, david harfield, gary m. pollak, gary becker, evan israel brenner, jay carr, mark b. johnson, joan sobel. co - producer, kathryn witt .
crew: directed, written by karen leigh hopkins. camera (color), barry markowitz; editor, joan sobel; music, jeff cardoni; music supervisor, laurel stearns; production designer, jennifer klide; costume designer, brenda abbandandolo; set decorator, carmen navis; sound, jonathan d. andrews; supervising sound editor / re - recording mixer, michael j. mcdonald; assistant directors, marie - helene riverain, jim goldthwait; casting, ed johnston .
with: katie holmes, james badge dale, callan mulvey, jean smart, mary kay place, ava kolker, stephen bishop, kate linder, james landry hebert, james keane, graham beckel, gregory allen smith, anna moravcik .
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one minute she' s teaching first - graders, the next she' s gunning down criminals with a dainty firearm .
she harbors several secrets, however, including that when she' s not giving children lessons on kindness and courage, she' s popping a cap in a man during a killing spree .
the cops are after a woman they' ve aptly described as a
pulp fiction mary poppins
— for her, a spoonful of gunpowder makes the crime rate go down — and that side of her life begins to get in the way of her finding a happily - ever - after scenario with the sheriff .
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. the odd little spikes in approach make for something better than disposable indie satire, but it all still feels underdeveloped .
besides never knowing where to stick a camera, or how long a given scene should last, hopkins quickly ditches any potentially subversive joy in her cartoon vigilante by saddling her with a redemptive love story opposite james badge dale' s kind - eyed sheriff. a traumatic past regarding her mother (jean smart) muddies up the tone more .
then there' s the movie' s cheaply exploitative use of the threat of child abuse as a last - act suspense ploy .
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mike (james badge dale), the local sheriff she is engaged to (and pregnant with his child) confronts mary and tells her he knows she' s responsible for the string of killings but is willing to bury it if she' ll stop. mary promises to try and they proceed towards their wedding. on her wedding day, mary and one of her students, heather, are kidnapped by skylar (callan mullvey) a released pedophile who mary threatened with violence before. mary is able to help heather escape and before skylar can kill mary, mike shows up thanks to heather' s help and shoots him dead. since skylar had mary' s gun they can blame him for the killings .
the film ends one year later, with mike, mary and their baby daughter in a big new house. mary says she has to leave for a bit, and given we are shown a close up of her purse and mike warning her to
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implies that mary hasn' t completely given up being a vigilante killer (and that mike has grown to accept it) .
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there is something wholly american in the film’s individualistic attitude to goodness, justice and freedom. the message seems to be that, when legal bureaucracy hinders the protection of the innocent from the evils of society, it is not entirely out of place for citizens to take matters into their own hands and take on the roles of judge, jury and executioner .
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katie holmes is on the verge of a comeback, but don' t call it that. she hasn' t really ever been gone. she' s just never taken off. past roles have notoriously flopped, but her bubbling girl - next - door personality prevails — even when she' s putting bullets through a sex offender' s neck. for the first time since dawson' s creek, holmes has found a role that fits her personality but challenges our perception of what a
katie holmes movie
is .
holmes' last major role was bruce wayne' s romantic interest, rachel dawes, in 2005' s batman begins. but, she was replaced with maggie gyllenhaal in the 2008 sequel. (she later told mtv that she turned it down for a role in, of all things, mad money .) whatever the real story may be, holmes' career hasn' t taken off .
why, though? she' s kept herself in the limelight between a broadway production (a show that closed early with mixed reviews) and becoming a face of bobbi brown. her role as jackie kennedy onassis in the kennedys, one that seemed right for her, wasn' t well received. hell, the series didn' t even make it to prime time. so, what gives? perhaps it' s because when she does have an opportunity to challenge herself, the project either fails to deliver or she, herself, plays it too safe. or, perhaps it' s because she hasn' t found the role that highlights her complexity while still playing her as a pretty face.
miss meadows is a 2014 american black comedy written and directed by karen leigh hopkins . the film stars katie holmes , james badge dale , callan mulvey and stephen bishop . the film was released theatrically in the united states on november 14 , 2014 , by entertainment one films . 
miss meadows is a 2014 american black comedy written and directed by karen leigh hopkins. the film stars katie holmes, james badge dale, callan mulvey and stephen bishop. the film was released theatrically in the united states on november 14, 2014, by entertainment one films.
miss meadows is a 2014 american black comedy written and directed by karen leigh hopkins. the film stars katie holmes, james badge dale, callan mulvey and stephen bishop. the film was released theatrically in the united states on november 14, 2014, by entertainment one films.