Matinee

Matinee
1993
★★★☆☆ 6.6/10
⏱️ 99 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
ComedyDrama
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.

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User Reviews

r96sk
★ 5/10
May 22, 2023
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.

Crew

Director
Joe Dante
Writer
Charles S. Haas, Jerico, Charles S. Haas
Producer
Michael Finnell

Production

Falcon Productions, Renfield Productions

Keywords

floridacold warmilitary basefilm in filmcuban missile crisis1960skey westbomb shelterfilm directorteenage protagonist