Matinee

1993 · 99 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 12,942 VOTES · DIR. Joe Dante

Matinee poster

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,393 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:50 [Explosion]
00:06:19 HI, MOM. HI!
00:09:46 EACH OF THESE MISSILES, IN SHORT
00:13:42 IF THIS PICTURE'S A FLOP, I'M GONNA LOOK INTO REAL LIFE;
00:17:46 BUT I WON'T HAVE THE PROTECTION OF BEING ON THE FLOOR IF THE BOMB FALLS.
00:21:21 OFF OF CUBA. OH, MY GOSH! IS HE?
00:25:43 HEY, LOOK!
00:28:56 LOOK WHAT IT GOT 'EM. FULL-SCALE PANIC.
00:33:02 WOW!
00:37:05 THEY MEAN WELL, BUT -- ONE OF THOSE GUYS WAS HERB DENNING.
00:40:25 ONE TIME WE MOVED. THIS WAS TO THE BIG TOWN, HATFIELD, MISSOURI.
00:43:39 HELLO?
00:47:26 I JUST GOT OUT. I DID SEVEN MONTHS. NOT LONG ENOUGH.
00:51:44 [Sighing]
00:56:40 RIGHT. NOW THIS STUFF OVER HERE.
01:00:29 WHICH IS MEASURED IN UNITS CALLED ROENTGENS, WAS RELEASED.
01:04:10 I'LL CALL DR. GRABOW. GET AWAY FROM THE TELEPHONE, CAROLE.
01:08:25 SURRENDER NOW. COME DOWN OFF THAT BUILDING.
01:12:54 WH--
01:16:42 THEN -- THEN WE'D BE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
01:21:50 NO MORE SCREAMIN' OR I'LL CUT YOU!
01:26:30 OH, THANK GOD YOU GOT HERE. I WAS SO SCARED!
01:31:07 THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE!
01:38:26 OH, BILL!

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,393
Dialogue density14.1 lines / min
First line00:00:50
Final line01:38:26

Production Record

DirectorJoe Dante
LanguageEnglish
Revenue$9,532,895
IMDb votes12,942