Matinee

1993

Comedy

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.

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

Rating

6.7
296 votes

Popularity

1.175

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

Universal Pictures,Falcon Productions,Renfield Productions

Runtime

99 min.

Budget (M$)

9.5 / 0ROI Infinity%

Status

Released

Release: 1/29/1993

Credits

Matinee

Joe DanteDirector

Matinee

John GoodmanLawrence Woolsey

Matinee

Cathy MoriartyRuth Corday / Carole

Matinee

Simon FentonGene Loomis

Matinee

Omri KatzStan

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Reviews

r96sk

5/22/2023

5 / 10

A bore! John Goodman almost saves <em>'Matinee'</em>, 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', <em>'Mant!'</em>, 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.

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