Matinee

Matinee

29/1/1993 1h 39m 6.7/10

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

Top Billed Cast

John Goodman

John Goodman

Lawrence Woolsey

Cathy Moriarty

Cathy Moriarty

Ruth Corday / Carole

Kellie Martin

Kellie Martin

Sherry

Omri Katz

Omri Katz

Stan

Lisa Jakub

Lisa Jakub

Sandra

Simon Fenton

Simon Fenton

Gene Loomis

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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