February 15, 1985
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, Luis Tamayo and Andy García. The screenplay was written by Leon Piedmont, based on the novel In the Heat of the Summer by John Katzenbach.
The film was named after the term of the same name that refers to a pattern of weather that occurs in Florida during the late summer months. In order to achieve accuracy for the scenes that take place in the busy newsroom, the filmmakers used Miami Herald reporters as on-set consultants and extras and shot in the actual newsroom as opposed to recreating it on a soundstage.
Storyline
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.
Sound Effects Used
- Ben Burtt Punching Sounds
- Hollywoodedge, Thunder Rip Rumble PE100860
- SKYWALKER, CAR - SOFT TIRE SQUEAL (debut)
- SKYWALKER, CAR - VARIOUS TIRE SCREECHING
- SKYWALKER, ELECTRICITY - THE FORCE WHINE (Heard as part of Sound Ideas, WIND - BLAST, MODULATION & HOWL, WEATHER)
- SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 21
- SKYWALKER, METAL - LIGHT CRACKLE AND SQUEAK
- SKYWALKER, THUNDER - DEEP, LOW CRACKLE (debut)
- Sound Ideas, INSECT, CRICKET - SINGLE, ANIMAL
- Sound Ideas, WIND - BLAST, MODULATION & HOWL, WEATHER
- Sound Ideas, WIND - FOREST WIND, LEAVES STIR, WEATHER (debut)
