Matinee
- Released
- 07/07/2003
- Film and TV Genre
- Comedy, General
- Video Format
- PAL
- DVD Region
- 2 (will only play on Region 2 and Multi-Region DVD players)
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 theatre for the debut of MANT!, a terrifying tale of one man's mutation into a demonic ant. At the theatre 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.
Plot Synopsis
The citizens of Key West, Florida get the fright of their lives when horror genius Lawrence Woolsey brings his latest low-budget movie to town.
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Product Details
- Actors
- Director
- Joe Dante
- Audio Format
- Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
- Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo English
- Tags
- Disc Features
- Scene Selection
- Interactive Menus
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Scene Access
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.33:1
- 1.33 Full Screen
- Year of release
- 1992
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Film Rating (Australia)
- PG
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Film Rating (UK)
- PG
- Run Time (minutes)
- 94
- Cast & Crew
- Isis Mussenden (Costume Designer)
- John Hora (Director of Photography)
- Marshall Harvey (Editor)
- Michael Finnell (Producer)
- Steven Legler (Production Designer)
- Charles Haas (Screenwriter)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Composer)
