MOVIE · 1996
Matilda
ComedyFamilyFantasy98 min
Mara Wilson is Matilda Wormwood, an unusually gifted little girl growing up in a house where her talents go unnoticed by her blustering father and distracted mother, played by Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. When she finally starts school, Matilda finds a welcome refuge with Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz) and a formidable enemy in headmistress Agatha Trunchbull, whose punishments turn the classroom into a battleground. As the unfairness piles up at home and at school, Matilda discovers she has telekinetic powers — and begins using them to stand up to the adults who keep underestimating her.
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