Matinee (1993)
1h 39m | PG-13
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
Studio: Universal Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Video: 720p
Cast
John Goodman
as Lawrence Woolsey
Cathy Moriarty
as Ruth Corday / Carole
Simon Fenton
as Gene Loomis
Omri Katz
as Stan
Lisa Jakub
as Sandra
Kellie Martin
as Sherry
Reviews
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.