Remember when Bill Paxton played the sleazy car salesman in True Lies? This is not that Bill Paxton. Mean Dreams follows Casey (Sophie Nélisse ) and Jonas (Josh Wiggins), two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love. In the Canadian produced film Paxton plays an abusive and corrupt sheriff, and it looks like it could be a pretty great performance from him.