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Matinee
From Falcon Productions · Renfield Productions
Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!
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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.
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Directed by Joe Dante
John Goodman
Cathy Moriarty
Simon Fenton
Omri Katz
Lisa Jakub
Kellie Martin
Jesse Lee Soffer
Lucinda Jenney
Robert Picardo
Jesse White
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r96skMay 22, 2023
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 b… Read more
it, 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.