Matinee

Watch: Matinee

1/29/19931h 39m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents! ~

Overview:

A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

Director:

Joe Dante

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$9,532,895.00

Key words:

florida
cold war
military base
film in film
cuban missile crisis
1960s
key west
bomb shelter
film director
teenage protagonist

Cast

John Goodman

~ as ~

Lawrence Woolsey

Cathy Moriarty

~ as ~

Ruth Corday / Carole

Simon Fenton

~ as ~

Gene Loomis

Omri Katz

~ as ~

Stan

Lisa Jakub

~ as ~

Sandra

Kellie Martin

~ as ~

Sherry

Jesse Lee Soffer

~ as ~

Dennis Loomis

Lucinda Jenney

~ as ~

Anne Loomis

James Villemaire

~ as ~

Harvey Starkweather

Robert Picardo

~ as ~

Howard, the Theater Manager

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Reviews (1)

r96sk
Written 2 year(s) ago
5
A bore! John Goodman almost saves 'Matinee', he's good, but not quite.

I personally didn't care for the characters of Key West and their stories, especially the parts with those portrayed by Kellie Martin, Omri Katz and James Villemaire. The story shoots off into quite a few directions, but I was genuinely not into any of it apart from the scenes with Goodman's Woolsey.

The 'film within a film', 'Mant!', is great though - it actually amused me a fair bit, which was a stark contrast to what the real comedy (or lack thereof) achieved. I appreciate what it was going for, but I just didn't dig the vast majority of it unfortunately.