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The film was named The Mean Season after the term of the same name that refers to a pattern of weather that occurs in Florida during the late summer months. Hot mornings with sticky weather lead into violent thunderstorms that blow in from the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in the afternoon.
- $10 million
- Lalo Schifrin
- February 15, 1985
Feb 15, 1985 · The Mean Season: Directed by Phillip Borsos. With Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur. When a teenager is shot at the beach, a journalist from The Miami Journal is sent to cover the story. He's called by the murderer and told there'll be four more.
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- Phillip Borsos
- R
- Crime, Thriller
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- The Origins of Spring. Before spring was called spring, it was called Lent in Old English. Beginning in the 14th century, that time of year was called “springing time”—a reference to plants “springing” from the ground.
- The Origins of Summer. Summer came from the Old English name for that time of year, sumor. This, in turn, came from the Proto-Germanic sumur-, which itself came from the Proto-Indo-European root sam-.
- The Origins of Fall. The origin of fall as a name for a season isn't perfectly clear, though it’s thought that it probably came from the idea of leaves falling from trees (particularly the contraction of the English saying “fall of the leaf").
- The Origins of Winter. Winter, meanwhile, derives from the Proto-Germanic wentruz. This, in turn, probably comes from the Proto-Indo-European wed, meaning “wet,” or wind-, meaning “white.”
In the UK, "series" usually refers to both the entire collection of episodes from all years and a batch of episodes broadcast in a run, usually in the same year. Although, due to the influx of US programmes, the US "season" is becoming more widespread in the UK, especially when talking about American programmes.
- Series was the term for both a batch of episodes of a programme, and the entire collection of episodes, in the UK. Over the last ten years or so I...
- I just wanted to chip in to say that in British English 'season' also has a meaning different to American English, being a group of programmes on a...
- For a British born English speaker in Britain, "series" usually refers to that one batch of episodes and all the episodes of a particular programme...
- Series in the UK is what Americans call a 'season'. We would say "Have you got Series 3 of Shameless on DVD" for example. We don't really have one...
- An American season used to be far more than half a year. Thirty episodes was about right ( example ), followed by summer re-runs. All three majo...
- "Season" may be gradually replacing "series" in the UK, but historically "series" refers to a single batch of episodes, not the whole run. Both Ne...
- As an Australian, I grew up saying "season". When I say "series", I am referring to an actual TV program, and I think it is a bit wrong to refer to...
Jul 9, 2022 · On Screen NYC. July 9th 2022. By. Patrick Dahl. In The Mean Season (1985), a grizzled veteran on the verge of retirement gets drawn into one last irrefusable job. But Kurt Russell’s Malcolm Anderson isn’t a cop or a jewel thief. He belongs to a different breed of vainglorious movie professional, the journalist.
Sep 21, 2023 · Summaries. The Mean Season (1985) September 21, 2023. 745 2 minutes read. Film and Plot Synopsis. A burnt out Miami reporter named Malcolm Anderson experiences a revitalization in his career when an article he writes about the unsolved murder of a local teenager garners him both fame and an unwelcome admirer: a man who insists he’s the perpetrator.
The setting is Miami during the so-called mean season, when the summer is winding down and the thunder storms become more violent. Made before the 90s post-Silence of the Lambs serial killer boom, there's not much to recommend here.
