Matinee

Matinee (1993)

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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 and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

Date of release
1993-01-29
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (346)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Joe Dante

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $9.5M
  • Budget: $13M
  • Earned 0.7× its budget

Matinee is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Joe Dante, written by Jerico Stone and Charles S. Haas, and starring John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, and Lisa Jakub with supporting roles from Robert Picardo and Jesse White. Goodman plays a William Castle–type independent filmmaker promoting the premiere of his latest movie during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Despite critical acclaim and positive reviews, the film was a box office failure.

Production

Joe Dante says the financing of the film was difficult:

Matinee got made through a fluke. The company that was paying for us went out of business and didn't have any money. Universal, which was the distributor, had put in a little money, and we went to them and begged them to buy into the whole movie, and to their everlasting sorrow they went ahead and did it. [Laughs.]

Principal photography began on April 13, 1992. Filming took place in and around the state of Florida, including the towns of Cocoa, Maitland, and Key West. The interior sequences in the school and the movie theater were filmed on set at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando. The street scenes were filmed in Oxnard, California. Production was completed on June 19, 1992.

The original film score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Several cues from previous genre films were also used, arranged and conducted by Dick Jacobs. These included "Main Title" from Son of Dracula (1943); "Visitors" from It Came from Outer Space (1953); "Main Title" from Tarantula (1955); "Winged Death" from The Deadly Mantis (1957); two cues from This Island Earth (1955), "Main Title" and "Shooting Stars"; and three cues from the Creature from…

Joe Dante had cast character actor Dick Miller in each of his movies, casting him in Matinee as one of the men protesting the monster movie's release, and as a soldier holding a sack of sugar in Mant! Also appearing in supporting roles are William Schallert and Robert O.

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