THE MEAN SEASON

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• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Crime, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: A time between summer... and murder.; ; In the middle of its storm-riddled summer, Miami must face a new monster: a psychopath whose one objective is to gain fame through murder. Kurt Russell, Richard Jordan and Mariel Hemingway give performances as blistering as the Florida heat in this 'never dull parable of American ambition' (New York) that combines an 'intriguing premise and provocative subject matter [into] a suspenseful thriller' (Boxoffice) with 'real chills' (Newsweek)!; ; An article on the killing of a teenage girl has brought burnt-out Miami Herald reporter Malcolm Anderson (Russell) a powerful new fan… the killer himself. Encouraged by the police to maintain this anonymous relationship, Malcolm receives exclusives on two more killings. But as Malcolm's own celebrity grows, the killer's jealousy prompts him to up the stakes - by abducting the reporter's fiancée (Hemingway) as his own testament to the price of fame!
• Cast: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Richard Bradford, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia, Rose Portillo, William Smith, John Palmer, Lee Sandman, Dan Fitzgerald, Cynthia Caquelin, Fred Ornstein, Fritz Bronner, Mike DeRienzo, Michael Clay, Fred Buch, Bruce McLaughlin, Robert Apte, Marshall B. Gage, Rodney Barretto, Jill Beach, Peter Lundquist, Connie Hicks, Bill Rutherford, George Rudolph, Robert Small, Nancy Duerr, Mark Fields, Tim Minton, Mary Lou Simo, Tamara Jones, Joan Murphy, Richard Liberty, Paul Nagel, Morris Zuckerman, Lillian Zuckerman, Ann Browning, Jennifer Browning, Robert Gwaltney, Christine Page, Joshua Segal, Raymond Forchion, Bobby Harwell, David Joseph Martinez, Phillip Borsos, John Katzenbach, Leon Piedmont
• Director: Phillip Borsos
• Runtime: 1:44
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie