The Mean Season

The Mean Season (1985) is a Miami-set crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Kurt Russell plays Malcolm Anderson, a newspaper crime reporter who breaks a story about a young woman's murder. Then the killer calls him directly.

The caller names Anderson his personal mouthpiece and promises four more deaths. Every front page feeds the body count, and the reporter wakes up trapped inside someone else's plot. Phillip Borsos directs, with a young Andy Garcia, Mariel Hemingway and Richard Jordan filling out the cast. The film turns Florida's wet summer heat into a slow vise. A sharp look at the price of a scoop, where chasing the story makes you part of it. Stream The Mean Season online on iFILM.