The Mean Season (1985)
- Directed by
- Phillip Borsos
- Genre
- crime film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 116 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Miami newspaper reporter gets drawn into a cat and mouse game with a serial killer who calls him for attention. The killer feeds him details about his crimes, creating a tense partnership with the police and the press.
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What happens
The Mean Season is a 1985 American thriller film directed by Phillip Borsos, and starring Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Luis Tamayo and Andy García. The screenplay, written by Christopher Crowe under the pseudonym Leon Piedmont, is based on the 1982 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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