The Mean Season
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Actor: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Bradford, Richard Jordan, Richard MasurDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Mean Season
Movie Review: Does a reporter become complicit in a crime when he publicizes it?
Summary: 5 Stars
Does a reporter become complicit in a crime when he publicizes it just as the criminal wants him to do? This film focuses on a burnt out reporter of a leading Miami, Florida, newspaper who wants to leave his paper after eight years because he is bored. He tells his editor that he needs a story like the Watergate disclosures. He and his girl friend, a school teacher, decide to move west to a small town where he can become the managing editor of a small newspaper.
A young woman is killed, shot in the head. He is assigned by the Miami paper to write the story and does it well. Despite his boredom, he is an excellent writer. He receives a call from the killer who compliments him on his writing skill and tells him he will be killing five people in all and he will call him from time to time so that he can advertise his crimes. He is killing because he wants publicity.
The killer kills as promised and the reporter broadcasts his murders as the murderer wants. The reporter becomes quite famous. People talk about him getting a Pulitzer Prize. He appears on TV. Reporters seek to interview him. His over-involvement places a strain on his relationship with the school teacher. The murderer begins to feel that he ruining what he wants to accomplish; the reporter is getting more exposure than he. This prompts him to take action against the reporter.
In short, both the reporter and the murderer want publicity. Does the reporter finally realize what he is doing? How does he handle the situation?
Summary of The Mean Season
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 killingof 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 stakesby abducting the reporter's fiancĂ(c)e (Hemingway) as his own testament to the price of fame!Similar DVD Movies
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