Matinee

Theatrical - Wide 1993-01-29

Cast John Goodman Cathy Moriarty Simon Fenton Omri Katz
Directed by Joe Dante
Written by Charles Haas

Genres: Comedy Period

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A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises 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.

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