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The Mean Season (1985)
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Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway star in this well-above-average thriller. Mean Season offers plenty of suspense as well as an interesting take on the role of the press in sustaining the very violence it covers. Russell plays Malcolm Anderson, a burned-out journalist who never got the big career-making story he always wanted. Just as he's about to give up and move to the idyllic countryside, the big story comes to him--in the form of a serial killer with a fixation for Anderson himself. As Anderson's fame grows, he starts getting hounded by his brethren, the press. Add this to the assorted problems that go along with having a serial...
| Release Date: | February 15th, 1985 |
| Running Time: | 103 minutes |
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$4,349,446 (US)
$0 (World) |
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Like any good writer, I have no hesitation in admitting my biases. Any hero that drives around in a Mustang convertible gets extra points. Any film that occurs in the Florida hurricane season gets points for atmosphere.
There, that's the biases, and they don't take away from a good crime story that also has a lot to say...
(complete The Mean Season review by Movie Addict)
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