The Mean Season

The Mean Season is a 1985 American thriller film directed by Phillip Borsos and stars Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano and Andy Garca. The screenplay was written by Leon Piedmont, based on the novel In the Heat of the Summer by John Katzenbach.

Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper, who is burned out from years of covering the worst crimes in the city. He promises his girlfriend Christine that they will move away from the city, but he ends up covering a series of grisly murders by a serial killer who calls him telling the reporter that he will kill again. The lines between covering the story and becoming part of it are blurred.Veteran crime reporter for the Miami Herald newspaper John Katzenbach wrote the novel, In the Heat of the Summer, based on his years of experiences and of stories told to him by fellow reporters he knew. He tried to examine what he described as the nature of reporting and the ambiguity and ambivalence of the job. Theres a fundamental dilemma in, on the one hand, thinking How can I intrude on these people at the moment of exquisite agony? and, on the other hand thinking My God, Im sitting on a terrific story ........

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