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Matinee (1993)

6.7 | Jan 29, 1993 (US) | Comedy | 01:39
Budget: N/A | Revenue: 9 532 895

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

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.

Featured Crew

Director
Makeup Effects, Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Costume Design
Orchestrator
Supervising Sound Editor
Assistant Production Coordinator
Set Decoration
Screenplay, Story

Cast

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John Goodman
Lawrence Woolsey
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Cathy Moriarty
Ruth Corday / Carole
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Simon Fenton
Gene Loomis
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Lisa Jakub
Sandra
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Jesse Lee Soffer
Dennis Loomis
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Lucinda Jenney
Anne Loomis
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James Villemaire
Harvey Starkweather
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Robert Picardo
Howard, the Theater Manager

Reviews

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r96sk
5 | 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.