Matinee (1993)
Directed by Joe Dante
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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American directors are constantly paying tribute to the fertile ground that inspired their own careers (Woody Allen had "Radio Days," Joe Dante made "Matinee"), but Abrams' attempt is different in that he allows an ear-splitting, server-straining CG train crash to derail his rose-colored reverie, emerging with a relatively standard monster movie instead.
Merriest of all is a made-up film: “Mant,” the horror flick at the heart of Joe Dante’s “Matinee” (1993), which is launched by a bumptious producer in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, bearing the magnificent tagline “Half Man, Half Ant, All Terror!”
Set in the early Sixties (just around the time of Joe Danteâs equally nostalgic but ultimately noisy Matinee) Secondhand Lions casts Haley Joel Osment as 14-year-old Walter, who finds himself unceremoniously dumped at the dilapidated rural Texas home of his eccentric uncles Garth (Caine) and Hub (Duvall) when his mother (Sedgwick) heads up to Dallas to learn "court reporting."