Matinee (VHS, 1993) 
Matinee (VHS, 1993)

 
Matinee (VHS, 1993)

Leading Role: John Goodman
Director: Joe Dante
Rating: Rated PG
Release Date: Jun 1993
Format: VHS
Product ID: EPID3193303
Description: It's 1962 and 15-year-old horror film fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) is the new kid in a small Key West town; the Cuban Missile Crisis is happening in his own backyard; an intriguing girl (Lisa Jakub) is actually looking his way, and bes...
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Movie Description
It's 1962 and 15-year-old horror film fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) is the new kid in a small Key West town; the Cuban Missile Crisis is happening in his own backyard; an intriguing girl (Lisa Jakub) is actually looking his way, and best of all, master showman Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is in town promoting his latest sci-fi horror flick. Gene and his friends eagerly gather at the local theater for the debut of MANT!, a terrifying tale of one man's mutation into a demonic ant. At the theater they experience the thrill of a lifetime, as the threat of nuclear war looms overhead. John Goodman is at his uproarious best as the larger-than-life horror promoter who revels in the creation of one-of-a-kind shock and terror as the nation waits for its fate to be revealed. MATINEE is a masterful homage to B-movie science fiction classics of the 1950s and '60s that ingeniously combines science fiction shock and suspense with the real life horror of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Credits
Producer:Michael Finnell
Cast:David Clennon, Jesse White, Lisa Jakub, Lucinda Jenney, Robert Picardo, Simon Fenton

Notes
Cameo appearances are made by screenwriter Charlie Haas as Mr. Elroy and by director/screenwriter John Sayles (as Bob) who co-wrote Dante's PIRANHA.

Editorial Reviews
"...Funny....[Goodman] is great fun..."
New York Times - p.C6 - Janet Maslin

"...MATINEE is a sweetly resonant little movie-lovers' movie..."
USA Today - p.4D - Mike Clark

"...JOE DANTE lovingly recreates the monster pics of his youth in MATINEE....Solid comic turns by Goodman, Moriarty and Robert Picardo..."
Variety - Lawrence Cohn

"...A delightful comedy and one of the most charming movies in a long time....There are plenty of big laughs in MATINEE..."
Chicago Sun-Times - p.37 - Roger Ebert

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