Matinee

Matinee
  • Release date: 29 Jan 1993
  • Release year: 1993
  • Runtime: 99 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: transistor radio, teenager, key west florida, film within a film, movie theater, horror filmmaking, movie producer, ant costume, juvenile delinquency, military brat
Plot:
In 1962, in Key West, the local movie theater has scheduled the preview of the low budget "Mant" about a man transformed in ant after a nuclear accident. The B-Horror Movie producer Lawrence Woolsey and the lead actress Ruth Corday come themselves to the town to promote the film. Meanwhile, there is the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the lives of the locals. Woolsey brings state-of-art equipment for special effects that cause havoc among the residents that believe Cuba might be attacking Key West.
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