Matinee

1993 • 1h 39m •

Comedy Drama

MOVIEVIBE Rating

★ 6.7/10

341 reviews

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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!"

Top Billed Cast

John Goodman

Lawrence Woolsey

Cathy Moriarty

Ruth Corday / Carole

Simon Fenton

Gene Loomis

Omri Katz

Stan

Lisa Jakub

Sandra

Kellie Martin

Sherry

Jesse Lee Soffer

Dennis Loomis

Lucinda Jenney

Anne Loomis

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R r96sk Verified TMDB Critic

2023-05-22

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, b...