The Mean Season

Name: The Mean Season
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: February 15, 1985
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Andy Garcia, Joe Pantoliano, John Palmer, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway

1985

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: February 15, 1985 | R

Starring: Andy Garcia, Joe Pantoliano, John Palmer, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Bradford, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Rose Portillo, William Smith

Summary: Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before Malcolm can hand in his notice, the murderer from his latest article phones him. The murderer tells Malcolm that he's going to kill again. The phoneMalcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before Malcolm can hand in his notice, the murderer from his latest article phones him. The murderer tells Malcolm that he's going to kill again. The phone calls and murders continue, soon Malcolm finds that he's not just reporting the story, he is the story.… Expand

Director: Phillip Borsos

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Kevin Thomas

The Mean Season makes deft use of the thriller form to examine the relationship between those who report the news and those who make it, and how that line can blur dangerously. The film is very honest about how seductive a byline can be. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Jordan is at his shrewdly crazed best, anchoring the movie with a felt terror, initially just through his off-screen voice as he manipulates the reporter over the phone and ultimately through his cunning. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Philip Borsos, who directed ''The Grey Fox,'' builds the suspense of The Mean Season slowly and, for the most part, very effectively. Read full review

Bill Cosford

"Overworked" is the word for much of the movie. The Mean Season has the feel of a project much tinkered with, so that it seems both laborious and scattered. For a melodrama it moves too slowly, and for a thriller it is too obvious; you can see the seams, see the film's gears move when its works should be invisible. [15 Feb 1985, p.D1]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

An uneven and somewhat predictable thriller. Read full review

Gene Siskel

The only redeeming aspects of the film are its striking production design by Philip Jefferies--a sweltering Miami similar to the look of ''Body Heat''-- and a convincing performance by Richard Masur as the city editor of the film`s fictional Miami newspaper. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Nothing more than an inept thriller.

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