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Format: VHS
Jul 1997
Rated PG
Recording Mode: Dolby Surround
Sound: Stereo, Surround, HiFi
Closed Captioned
99 min.
UPC: 096898148139 |
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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.
Film 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.
Industry 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
Quotations
"Leonard Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... PROUDLY PRESENTS!" -- marketing line for the film
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