The Mean Season (1985) on Netflix
Malcolm Anderson is a burned-out reporter on a Miami newspaper. He tells Christine, his girlfriend, that the two of them will leave the city, and then a killer starts calling him.
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Plot summary
For years Malcolm Anderson has covered the worst crimes in Miami for a newspaper, and the work has worn him down. He tells Christine, his girlfriend, that the two of them will leave the city behind. Then the murders begin, and the killer picks up the phone. He calls the reporter, says that he will kill again, and treats him as the man who will speak for him. The calls and the clues pull Malcolm further into a story he is meant only to write about, and the line between reporting on the case and being part of it begins to blur.
Cast
- Cynthia Caquelinas Ruth Lowenstein
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Mean Season (1985)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- When director Phillip Borsos and his crew arrived at the Herald offices in April 1984, a man suspected of kidnapping and killing several young women shot himself in a confrontation with police in New Hampshire; Borsos recalled about 500 reporters in the office, everybody going insane.
- For the newsroom scenes, director Phillip Borsos used Herald reporters as on-set consultants and extras, and the production shot in the actual Herald newsroom between 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. rather than recreating it on a soundstage.
- Veteran Miami Herald crime reporter John Katzenbach wrote the novel In the Heat of the Summer, drawing on his own years of experience and on stories told to him by fellow reporters he knew.
