The Mean Season (1985)

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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

Starring:: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, (more)

Director(s):: Phillip Borsos

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: R

Format(s):: DVD
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Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 104 mins

Complete Cast of The Mean Season

Kurt Russell - Malcolm Anderson
Richard Jordan - Alan Delour
Joe Pantoliano - Andy Porter
Andy Garcia - Ray Martinez
Fritz Bronner - Peter Peterson, Reporter
Michael Clay - Ray Sloane, Reporter
Ann Browning - Victim in Matheson Hammock Park
Rodney Barretto - Swat Commander
Richard Liberty - Mr. Hooks
Robert Small - Bill Crawford
Morris Zuckerman - Mr. Stein
Mary Lou Simo - Reporter
Bill Rutherford - TV Reporter
Christine Page - Elementary School Teacher
Joan Murphy - Mrs. Hooks
Peter Lundquist - Channel 7 TV Reporter
Bob Gwalty - Psychiatrist
Mark Fields - Reporter
Fred Buch - John Burrows, Detective Chief
Nancy Duerr - TV Newswoman
Tamara Jones - Sarah Hooks
Fred Ornstein - Warren Phillips, Attorney

Mariel Hemingway - Christine Connelly
Richard Masur - Bill Nolan
Richard Bradford - Phil Wilson
Rose Portillo - Kathy Vasquez
Lee Sandman - Harold Jacoby, Miami Journal Publisher
Jennifer Browning - Victim's Infant
Jill Beach - Channel 7 TV Anchorwoman
Robert Apte - Swat Commander
William Smith - Albert O'Shaughnessy
John Palmer - Himself
Lillian Zuckerman - Mrs. Stein
Joshua Segal - Schoolboy
George Rudolph - WGBS Radio Newsman
Paul Nagel - Jogger
Bruce McLaughlin - Leonard Pridmore, Medical Examiner
Connie Hicks - Channel 10 TV Reporter
Marshall B. Gage - SWAT Commander
Mike de Rienzo - Everett Durfee, Reporter
Cynthia Caquelin - Ruth Lowenstein, Attorney
Dan Fitzgerald - Carl Mason, Editor-in-Chief
Tim Minton - Reporter

Director(s):: Phillip Borsos

Writer(s):: Christopher Crowe, Leon Piedmont

Producer(s):: David Foster, Lawrence Turman

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: R(Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Nudity, Adult Language)

Categories:: Mystery & Suspense

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