Matinee poster
Director Joe Dante
Screenplay Charles S. Haas

Matinee

Comedy1993

Tagline: Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!

Release Date: 1993-01-29

Duration: 99 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Naomi Watts
    Shopping Cart Starlet
  • John Goodman
    Lawrence Woolsey
  • Kellie Martin
    Sherry
  • William Schallert
    Dr. Grabow, DDS
  • Cathy Moriarty
    Ruth Corday / Carole
  • Robert Picardo
    Howard, the Theater Manager
  • Jesse Lee Soffer
    Dennis Loomis
  • Kevin McCarthy
    General Ankrum
  • Lucinda Jenney
    Anne Loomis
  • Jesse White
    Mr. Spector