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{{quote|''"Grownups don't know what they're doing either, kid. That's the real hustle."''|'''Lawrence Woolsey'''}}
'''Matinee''' is a 1993 [[Dramedy]] film directed by [[
The film received critical acclaim when it was first released but has fallen to the sands of time and currently [https://web.archive.org/web/20130824172510/http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/06/02/forgotten-films-matinee/ lives on] as a [[Cult Classic]].
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* [[Ten Minutes in
* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Sandra thinks she and Gene are in one after they're locked in the fallout shelter.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Sherry
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Howard the Theater Manager as well as Sandra, Gene and most the theater patrons think the apocalypse has already happened.
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** [[Darker and Edgier]]: "Let's put [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|some teeth]] on this thing and make it ''even scarier!"''
* [[Atomic Hate]]: most folks in the '60s seem to realize that the [[Cold War]] is [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]].
* [[Attack of the
* [[Author Appeal]]: Joe Dante doing a movie about a movie about monsters.
** [[Nostalgia]]: Much like Rob Reiner with ''[[Stand
* [[Ax Crazy]] / [[Knife Nut]]: Harvey Starkweather.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Bill.
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* [[Blackmail]]: How Sherry's little brother plans on getting to the movies.
* [[B-Movie]]: the film is an [[Homage]] to the William Castle B-Movies with ''Smell-O-Vision'' and the like. Goodman plays Woolsey, an [[Expy]] of Castle whose previous work was ''[[The Tingler]]'' and involved shocking people in their seats. Actors are hired to work the crowd before and during the show.
* [[Casting Gag]]: Several B-Movie Alumni are cast such as William Schallert and Robert Cornthwaite.
** [[Actor Allusion]]: The actors who play Herb and Bob are forgotten veteran B-movie actors both in-story and out.
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Gene after dreaming his father came how just as the bomb fell.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Lawrence Woolsey delivers the film's message.
* [[Cold War]]: got hot.
* [[Dancing Bear]]: Lawrence Woolsey's movies (an in-work reference to the Funhouse Horror films of William Castle).
* [[Delinquents|Delinquent]]: Harvey Starkweather of the big haired, leather jacket, wallet stealing variety.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: [[The Sandlot]], another nostalgic film set in 1962 was released mere months after this one.
* [[Dull Surprise]]: The actors in "MANT!"
* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]
* [[The End of the World
* [[Eucatastrophe]]: Woolsey's expectation that the show will do well because people are seeking a release from fear of nuclear annihilation. Woolsey gives a speech about the phenomenon, comparing moviegoers to cave men seeking to confront their fear of the unknown.
* [[Excited Show Title!]]: "MANT!"
* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]:
** When Harvey Starkweather goes on a rampage in his rubber suit, audience members mistake it for part of the show.
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** Gene thinks that the theater managers trying to break in to the sealed bomb shelter are starving [[After the End|atomic mutants]] bent on [[Stupid Evil|killing them]] for food. Sandra responds: [[Friend to All Living Things|"Then we have a duty to let them in!"]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Bill makes them to deal with his transformation.
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''(scientist picks up bug spray)'' }}
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Actually, people hate it, but the trope is how "MANT!" is formed.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Andy.
* [[Lenny Bruce]]: Gene and his friends sneak a listen to his "tits and ass!" routine on the record player.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The film.
** [[YMMV]]. It is set during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]], and nuclear anxiety is one of the key themes.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Harvey Starkweather.
* [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]]: Pretty similar to ''[[Back to The Future]]'' in this regard, but with more social commentary.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: [[The Professor]] in MANT. Also, the Dentist:
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** [[Title Drop]] <small>"So that's how he became a--"</small>
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* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Bill aka MANT!
* [[Show Within a Show|Movie Within A Movie]]: MANT! Is a completely recreated 50s-style B-Movie. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2Lbhwl23M Exerpts] of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT8hzyE_CRI exist] online.
** Also "The Shook Up Shopping Cart".
* [[My Eyes Are Up Here]]
* [[Mythology Gag]]: [[
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Harvey vs. Herb and Bob, the "decency" committeemen who turn out to be tough-guy second-string actors on the run from the [[Fall of the Studio System|Hollywood Blacklist]].
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Well, more like Naughty Pinchers
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* [[Shining City]]: Key West.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The movie is a practically one long list of Shout Outs.
** The Movie Within A Movie, "MANT!" is filled with references to ''[[The Fly]]'' and ''[[
** MANT!'s [[Tagline]] "Half Man, Half Ant, All Terror!" is a parody of the Tagline from [[
** Lawerence Woolsey is a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Dancing Bear|Funhouse Horror]] stylings of William Castle. His personal introduction trailers which feature his cigar and silhouette are a nod to [[Alfred Hitchcock]], who is he is mistaken for earlier.
** Gene's room is littered with vintage monster magazines and B Movie Posters including ''[[The Crawling Eye]]'' and ''Killers From Outer Space''.
** [[Jerry Goldsmith]]'s awesome score includes themes from ''[[Son of Dracula]]'', ''[[It Came
** The Key West Strand Theater has several vintage posters including ''Confessions of an Opium Eater'' with [[Vincent Price]] and ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]''.
** "The Shook Up Shopping Cart" is a parody of the Disney Family Comedies of the time in the vein of ''The Shaggy Dog''. Gene refers to it as "One of those [[Flubber|Flying Rubber Professor Movies]]".
* [[The Sixties]]: The Cuban Missile Crisis plus cheesy Saturday matinee movies.
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* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Woolsey. He comes off as dishonest at first with his risky plans for promoting his movie, but shows great passion for showmanship and is very direct with Gene.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The Scientist lectures Bill about how atomic energy is turning him into an ant.
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'''Dentist:''' "I'm ''sorry'', Bill! }}
* [[Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?]]: Starkweather seems bent on stalking Sherry after sending her beat poetry from juvenile detention.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Sandra recognizes the futility of nuclear drills and paints a grim picture of the effects of radiation. She is also a crusader for social justice, familiar with Gandhi and the plight of Negroes in the United States.
** This is probably thanks to her parents, who seem just a little out of place.
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