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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 d…
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Matinee
“Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!”
67%
Movie
1h 39m
AI Analysis
Matinee (1993) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Matinee (1993) — a movie tagged as Comedy and Drama with funny moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: 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. Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~99 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Matinee 67% (321 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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Synopsis
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.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1993-01-29
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- TMDB rating
- 6.7
- TMDB ID
- 25389
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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 an... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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The official runtime for Matinee is approximately 99 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
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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James Villemaire
Harvey Starkweather
Robert Picardo
Howard
Jesse White
Mr. Spector
Dick Miller
Herb
John Sayles
Bob
David Clennon
Jack
Lucy Butler
Rhonda
- G
Georgie Cranford
Dwight
- N
Nick Bronson
Andy
- C
Cory Barlog
Stan's Friend
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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.
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