Matinee is a 1993 period comedy film directed by Joe Dante. It is an ensemble piece about the home front in the Cuban Missile Crisis combined with a tribute to independent filmmaker William Castle. The film stars John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Lisa Jakub, and Kellie Martin. A then unknown Naomi Watts has a small role as a character in a film within the film. The film was written by Jerico Stone and Charlie Haas, the latter portraying Mr. Elroy, a schoolteacher. Gene Loomis and his brother Dennis live on a military base in Key West, Florida; their father is away... onboard one of the nearby submarines. After leaving the announcement of an exclusive engagement of Lawrence Woolsey's Mant!, including Woolsey's appearance in-person, they arrive home to John F. Kennedy's television interruption, stating the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Woolsey finds this atmosphere of fear to be the perfect environment in which to open his film, Mant! in Atomo-Vision and Rumble-Rama.
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| Release date: | 1993 |
| Directed by: | Joe Dante |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Screenplay by: | Charles S. Haas |
| Genre: | Comedy |