source--Hollywood Online
Nothing in The Mean Season is quite as powerful as its opening: a languid shot of a young girl, wandering with a seeming carefree air down the beach, suddenly turning to stare in tearful terror at the man she knows is about to kill her. The plot concerns the search for the serial murderer "introduced" in the opening. Miami journalist Kurt Russell writes a newspaper series on the killings, and as a result is the recipient of phone calls from the killer, Richard Jordan. Jordan likes Russell's work (!), and promises to call in with exclusive accounts of his upcoming murders--though he doesn't go so far as to tell Russell where he'll strike next. The story becomes bigger than both Russell and Jordan, with the latter growing jealous of Russell's sudden celebrity and with both men using one another to advance themselves. The inevitable showdown takes place during a convincingly staged hurricane, with Russell's lady friend Mariel Hemingway an unwilling pawn between the two ego-driven men. The Mean Season was adapted by Leon Piedmont from John Katzenbach's novel In the Heat of the Summer.
My comment:
Andy is a cop in this movie, young and cute, but his acting is not as good as in other movies.