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Matinee (1993 film)

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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.
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to Ruth's throat, demanding the movie premiere's cash receipts from Woolsey. As he steals the cash, he kidnaps Sherry and escapes. Howard immediately calls the police, and Harvey is quickly arrested after crashing Woolsey's Cadillac outside the movie theater. Sherry and Stan happily reunite after
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After the Cuban missile crisis has ended, Ruth and Woolsey leave for another premiere in Cleveland, bidding goodbye to Sandra and Gene. Woolsey has grown fond of the two kids, telling Ruth he might like to have two children after they marry. Sandra and Gene watch them drive away in Woolsey's new
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located in the theater's basement and uses it to frighten off Harvey. Sandra and Gene are unintentionally locked inside the shelter when the door is accidentally closed and its time-lock activated. While trapped inside, the two comfort each other, eventually sharing their first kiss.
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this ordeal. Woolsey also realizes that Harvey has turned the "Rumble-Rama" machinery up so high that the now-overcrowded theater balcony is starting to collapse from the heavy sound vibrations. Assisted by Gene, Woolsey projects trompe-l'œil footage of an atomic bomb
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caused by fallout. Stan has a crush on another girl at school, Sherry. However, violent juvenile delinquent (and aspiring poet) Harvey Starkweather, her ex-boyfriend, threatens Stan, so he lies to her out of fear, calling off their first date.
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struck such a nerve in American youth: The prospect of atomic disaster was so fanciful and abstract that it began to merge in people's imaginations with the very pop culture it had spawned. In effect, it all became one big movie.
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At school, Gene gradually befriends one of his classmates, Stan. He also becomes infatuated with Jack and Rhonda's daughter Sandra after she receives a week-long detention for protesting against the uselessness of a
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was released on January 29, 1993 in 1,143 theatres. It ranked at #6 at the box office, grossing $ 3,601,015 in its opening weekend. The film went on to gross $ 9,532,895 in its theatrical run.
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is a parody morphing of several low-budget science fiction horror films of the 1950s (many in black and white) that fused radioactivity with mad science and mutation. These films include
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monster) sees Sherry and Stan kissing during the film, he attacks Stan in a rage, then punches Woolsey after he tries to intervene, and a chase ensues. Stan takes a shotgun from a
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Woolsey is scheduled to appear in-person at the theater the following Saturday. After the boys return home to the base, the Loomis family watches
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but also for the zippy ardor of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons. He does everything but put a buzzer under your seat". In his review for the
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that appears to blast a hole through the screen and the theater's outside wall, quickly evacuating the now panicked audience to safety.
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Woolsey helps rescue the pair from the shelter before their oxygen supply runs out. Harvey reappears and holds his
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Cadillac. Navy helicopters fly over the beaches in Key West, implying that Gene's father will soon return home.
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s theatrical exhibition. However, local couple Jack and Rhonda advocate for allowing the premiere based on
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Woolsey has brought along two of his actors, Herb Denning, a former hired thug, and Bob, a victim of the
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as one of the men protesting the monster movie's release, and as a soldier holding a sack of sugar in
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Principal photography began on April 13, 1992. Filming took place in and around the state of
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shopping cart), is a reference to some color Disney comedies that came later in the decade:
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gave the film three and half out of four stars and wrote "There are a lot of big laughs in
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Triple Feature - Movies about moviegoing (Sherlock Jr., Matinee, and Goodbye, Dragon Inn)
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Clark, Mike (January 29, 1993). "B-guiling tribute to gimmicky '60s fright films".
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is a film that film buffs will love -- and might even convert some non-believers."
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s use of Rumble-Rama is a riff on William Castle's many in-theatre gimmicks (
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Kempley, Rita (January 29, 1993). "In the Glow of the Atomic Age".
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gave the film a "B+" rating, and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "In
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received critical acclaim and has a 93% approval rating at
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JOYOUS 'MATINEE' PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE MAGIC OF THE MOVIES
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as the niece of a man transformed into a shopping cart.
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Joe Dante says the financing of the film was difficult:
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is a loving tribute to the schlock that fear created".
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also mentions some of Woolsey's earlier horror movies:
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Joe Dante interviewed on the DVD release of Matinee
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Index


Joe Dante
Charles S. Haas
Michael Finnell
John Goodman
Cathy Moriarty
Simon Fenton
Omri Katz
Kellie Martin
Lisa Jakub
John Hora
Jerry Goldsmith
Universal Pictures
comedy film
Joe Dante
William Castle
Cuban Missile Crisis
John Goodman
Cathy Moriarty
Simon Fenton
Omri Katz
Lisa Jakub
Robert Picardo
Kellie Martin
Jesse White
Charles S. Haas
Key West
Florida
President Kennedy
speech

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