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''Miss Meadows'' is a 2014 American drama film 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. ==Plot== Miss Mary Meadows is a young woman who works as a substitute first-grade elementary school teacher and enjoys taking long walks in her suburban neighborhood and wearing traditional clothing and tap-dancing shoes. Unknown to everyone, she is a secret vigilante who murders local thugs who accost her or when she witnesses them committing crimes. She always carries a small semi-automatic pistol in her purse and speaks in a child-like, innocent manner. She lives by herself in a small house and talks occasionally with her mother over the telephone about what she did during the day. Investigating the vigilante killings is a local sheriff. He soon meets and develops an attraction to Miss Meadows due to her old-fashioned clothing and style of speech. When he begins to suspect that the woman he finds himself drawn to may be the suspect he is looking for, the sheriff is torn over whether to arrest her or protect her. When Miss Meadows meets an ex-convict named Skylar, who she learns served time for molesting young children, she begins to fear for her young students' safety. When Miss Meadows approaches and threatens to kill Skylar if he continues hanging around the school or around her kids, he begins stalking her. It is eventually revealed that all of the telephone conversations that Miss Meadows has been having with her mother over the course of the film are imaginary. As a young girl, Mary Meadows witnessed her mother's murder in a drive-by shooting outside a local church after attending the wedding of a family friend. This traumatic incident left Miss Meadows so emotionally scarred that she withdrew into a fantasy world in which she imagined that her mother was still alive and caused her to go after and kill criminals who she sees as a threat to society. The various crimminals that Miss Meadows kills on-screen include a trucker who tries to abduct her in the opening scene, a young man who committed a mass shooting at a local diner, and the town's catholic priest who Miss Meadows finds sexually molesting a young boy. When Miss Meadows learns that she is pregnant after a one-time sexual encounter with the sheriff, she decides to accept his proposal to get married. On the day of the wedding, Skylar kidnaps Heather, one of Miss Meadows's students , from her house, forcing Miss Meadows to go to Skylar's house (wearing her wedding dress) to try to stop him, only to end up a captive herself. When she manages to free Heather and struggle with Skylar over her gun, the sheriff, passing by after leaving the church, sees Heather running away from Skylar's house. Meanwhile, Skyler gets Miss Meadows's gun and asks her, "Do you really think you can save the world? Well, try saving your self!" Just after saying that, the sheriff arrives and shoots Skylar to death before he can kill Miss Meadows. The sheriff offers to protect Miss Meadows by reporting that Skylar was the vigilante. In the final scenes, set one year later, Miss Meadows is now married to the Sheriff. They appear happy and have a baby daughter to raise. However, Miss Meadows still dresses and speaks in an old-fashioned way and takes a walk to the supermarket to buy groceries for dinner while tap dancing down the sidewalk. It is left ambiguous whether or not Miss Meadows will continue her vigilante killing spree. == Cast == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miss Meadows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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