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!"
US | en | United States of America
Universal Pictures,Falcon Productions,Renfield Productions
99 min.
9.5 / 0ROI Infinity%
Released
Release: 1/29/1993
Joe DanteDirector
John GoodmanLawrence Woolsey
Cathy MoriartyRuth Corday / Carole
Simon FentonGene Loomis
Omri KatzStan
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r96sk
5/22/2023
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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