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The Mean Season is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Phillip Borsos released in USA on 15 february 1985 with Kurt Russell

The Mean Season (1985)

The Mean Season
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Released in USA 15 february 1985
Length 1h43
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller
Rating61% 3.050763.050763.050763.050763.05076

The Mean Season is a 1985 American thriller film directed by Phillip Borsos and stars Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano and Andy García. The screenplay was written by Leon Piedmont, based on the novel In the Heat of the Summer by John Katzenbach.

The film was named after the term of the same name that refers to a pattern of weather that occurs in Florida during the late summer months. In order to achieve accuracy for the scenes that take place in the busy newsroom, the filmmakers used Miami Herald reporters as on-set consultants and extras and shot in the actual newsroom as opposed to recreating it on a soundstage.

Synopsis

Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper, who is burned out from years of covering the worst crimes in the city. He promises his girlfriend Christine that they will move away from the city, but he ends up covering a series of grisly murders by a serial killer who calls him telling the reporter that he will kill again. The lines between covering the story and becoming part of it are blurred.

Actors

Kurt Russell

(Malcolm Anderson)Mariel Hemingway

(Christine Connelly)Richard Jordan

(Alan Delour)Andy García

(Ray Martinez)Richard Masur

(Bill Nolan)
And :
Richard Bradford
Joe Pantoliano
Richard Liberty
William Smith
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