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Matinee
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Matinee

1993

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Directed by Joe Dante

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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.

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Director
Joe Dante
Produced by
Michael Finnell
Cinematographer
John Hora
Makeup FX
Rick Baker
Origin country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Language
en
Rating
PG
TMDB
6.7/10 (317 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
93% Fresh
IMDb
6.9/10 (13,270 votes)
Released January 29, 1993·$14,000,000 budget·$9,532,895 revenue

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