Matinee Page #5

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Joe Dante
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
PG
Year:
1993
99 min
589 Views


Yeah, I'm fine.

The last guy she went out with

is in reform school. Yeah?

Yeah, this guy,

Harvey starkweather,

really bad kid.

[Gene] Wow!

I see that girl, i just --

listen, we gotta get

a date for you.

You wanna come over

after school?

Um, okay. Sure.

[Bell ringing]

All right, better hurry,

you're gonna be late.

[Lenny Bruce on record]

The entertainment capital...

Of this country

is Las Vegas.

What's the attraction

that all support,

all of the moralists,

all of the sensors,

all of the senators?

All right, this part here.

Tits and ass

is the attraction.

I beg your pardon.

Give me the second

biggest attraction.

More tits and ass.

That's it.

Tit's and ass

and ass and tits.

Damn, it's my mom!

[Mother]

Stan?

Uh, we're in here, mom.

Thank God you're home.

Everybody is so crazy out there.

Uh, mom,

this is gene.

Oh, hi, gene.

Gene's from on base.

What have you heard

over there?

They don't tell us much.

They're sayin' on the radio

that the world is

right on the brink,

and that is the terms

they're puttin' it in.

Do you know they are using

the casa marina hotel

for a barracks?

I almost couldn't

get back here.

They got army trucks comin'

down the a-one-a

holdin' everybody up.

Cool!

Let's go look.

Stanley!

Mom, I'll be all right.

Don't worry about it.

All right, but you stay within

you understand?

And if you see that flash,

you don't look.

You get down --

and I put my jacket

over my head.

Then get home

as fast as you can.

Gene, you just get on back

to the base then, all right?

Yes, ma'am.

All right.

Mom, don't worry.

Don't worry.

Huh!

Damn!

Let's go! Move out,

on the double!

Go! Go! Go!

Move 'em out!

[Stan]

What's that one?

That's a mobile radar unit.

That one there?

That's a

missile launcher.

Man, that little thing

can reach Cuba?

That's the plan.

See right over there?

That's where I got on top of

Denise Rogers last summer.

Fellows, we need you

outta this area.

Gonna pull some trucks

up in here.

Uh, sure.

Man, what's the deal?

Watch it!

Watch it!

[Indistinct chatter]

Ow!

It's a riot!

I know.

It's tough.

Hey, look!

Hey, excuse me!

Hey, let go of that!

[Indistinct arguing]

Both of you, stop it!

That's my

shredded wheat!

Is there more in the back?

There's no more

shredded wheat in the back.

There's no more

in the whole keys,

and one of you will have to

go to the atomic destruction...

With no damn

shredded wheat.

What do you think

about that?

I think it's my box --

hello, Mr. elroy.

Hello, uh, son.

[Elroy]

Hey!

Hey!

[Translating from russian]

You will have your answer

in due coarse.

I'm prepared to wait for my

answer until hell freezes over,

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Charles S. Haas

Charles Stephen Haas (born October 22, 1952), also known as Charles Haas or Charlie Haas, is an American screenwriter and actor, and novelist. Haas was born in Brooklyn, the son of Eunice (née Dillon) and Philip Haas, who was an attorney. Haas began his writing career with the film Over the Edge (1979). It was co-written with Tim Hunter and starred Matt Dillon. He later worked on Martians Go Home (1990) starring Randy Quaid. At around this time he was approached to write the script to the film Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), which was directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Haas also had a small acting role in the film as one of the scientists. Haas later took part in recording the DVD commentary for that film, and it was noted that it was Haas's idea to set that film in New York City. Haas would later work with Dante and Finnell again, writing the script for and appearing in the film Matinee (1993). More recently, Charlie Haas wrote the 2009 novel The Enthusiast, which was published by HarperCollins. He also wrote a humor piece for The New Yorker in April 2010. more…

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