Matinee (Blu-ray) PG
Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 16, 2018
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin & Lisa Jakub | |
Performer: | Lucinda Jenney, Jesse Lee Soffer, John Sayles, David Clennon, Lucy Butler, Naomi Watts, Robert Picardo, Jesse White & Dick Miller | |
Directed by | Joe Dante | |
Edited by | Marshall Harvey | |
Screenwriting by | Charles S. Haas | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | Michael Finnell | |
Director of Photography: | John Hora |
Entertainment Reviews:
...JOE DANTE lovingly recreates the monster pics of his youth in MATINEE....Solid comic turns by Goodman, Moriarty and Robert Picardo...
Variety
Rating: 9/10 --
[Dante's] delirium is both hilariously absurd and terrifyingly convincing.
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The Young Folks
Released in 1993, Matinee - a loving tribute to the z-grade, drive-in monster pics of the '50s and '60s, as viewed nostalgically through the eyes of children - isn't the sort of film you'd see come out of a major studio that often.
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Under the Radar
A tremendously sympathetic film capable of transcending the mere character of entertainment to become the most emblematic celluloid example of Joe Dante's work. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of director Joe Dante's finest achievements.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 4/5 --
Something of a forgotten gem, 1993's Matinee sits between Gremlins and Toy Soldiers in director Joe Dante's oeuvre.
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CineVue
...Funny....[Goodman] is great fun...
New York Times
Product 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.
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- Sales Rank: 45,996
- UPC: 826663182293
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