The Mean Season (1985)
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57% of critics liked it
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36% of users liked it
(1,577 ratings)
Canadian actor/director Philip Borsos made a couple of interesting films before an untimely death in his early forties, including The Grey Fox (1982) and this crime thriller starring Kurt Russell as police beat reporter Malcolm Anderson. Happily abandoning the Miami Daily for which he's labored… More Canadian actor/director Philip Borsos made a couple of interesting films before an untimely death in his early forties, including The Grey Fox (1982) and this crime thriller starring Kurt Russell as police beat reporter Malcolm Anderson. Happily abandoning the Miami Daily for which he's labored for years, he takes a job on a small town paper hoping to take life in the slow lane for a time. Of course, he's soon caught up in a career-making story, after a serial killer (Richard Jordan) likes his account of a murder he's committed and decides to use the journalist as his mouthpiece. As the killings continue, Anderson begins to receive national attention, and the Numbers Killer, motivated primarily by a desire for the limelight, becomes jealous, and decides to kidnap Anderson's girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) to teach him a lesson. As he has with Anderson, the killer soon develops a relationship of sorts with the woman, and slowly reveals the workings of his bizarre personality while the police search desperately for the pair. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi
- Directed By
- Phillip Borsos
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Feb 15, 1985 Wide
- Studio
- HBO Video
Critic Reviews
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
A gripping thriller that also challenges us to contemplate the ethical responsibilities of journalists.
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Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Unsatisfying mix of "Red Dragon" and "Absence of Malice"
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Cast
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Kurt Russell
as Malcolm Anderson
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Mariel Hemingway
as Christine Connelly
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Richard Jordan
as Alan Delour
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Richard Masur
as Bill Nolan
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Joe Pantoliano
as Andy Porter
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Richard Bradford
as Phil Wilson
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Andy Garcia
as Ray Martinez
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Rose Portillo
as Kathy Vasquez
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Fritz Bronner
as Peter Peterson Reporter
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Fred Buch
as John Burrows Detective Chief
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Cynthia Caquelin
as Ruth Lowenstein Attorney
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Nancy Duerr
as TV Newswoman
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Dan Fitzgerald
as Carl Mason Editor-in-Chief
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Tamara Jones
as Sarah Hooks
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Tim Minton
as Reporter
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Fred Ornstein
as Warren Phillips Attorney
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Lee Sandman
as Harold Jacoby Miami Journal Publisher
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Robert Small
as Bill Crawford
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William Smith
as Albert O'Shaughnessy
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Richard Liberty
as Mr. Hooks
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Robert Apte
as Swat Commander
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Rodney Barretto
as Swat Commander
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Jill Beach
as Channel 7 TV Anchorwoman
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Ann Browning
as Victim in Matheson Hammock Park
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Jennifer Browning
as Victim's Infant
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Michael Clay
as Ray Sloane Reporter
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Mike de Rienzo
as Everett Durfee Reporter
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Mark Fields
as Reporter
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Marshall B. Gage
as SWAT Commander
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Bob Gwalty
as Psychiatrist
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Connie Hicks
as Channel 10 TV Reporter
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Peter Lundquist
as Channel 7 TV Reporter
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Bruce McLaughlin
as Leonard Pridmore Medical Examiner
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Joan Murphy
as Mrs. Hooks
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Paul Nagel
as Jogger
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Christine Page
as Elementary School Teacher
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George Rudolph
as WGBS Radio Newsman
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Bill Rutherford
as TV Reporter
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Joshua Segal
as Schoolboy
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Mary Lou Simo
as Reporter
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Lillian Zuckerman
as Mrs. Stein
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Morris Zuckerman
as Mr. Stein
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John Palmer
as Himself
