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Staring: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris
Director: Danny DeVito
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony Pictures Home ENT
EAN: 9781404936287
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404936289
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2005-06-07
Running Time: 102
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1996-08-02

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See the world from a kid's-eye view with Matilda, a modern fairytale that mixes hilarious humor with the magical message of love. Mrs. Doubtfire's Mara Wilson stars as Matilda, a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents (Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman), her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.

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Danny DeVito's adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for children is mostly just fine, helped along quite a bit by the charming performance of Mara Wilson (Mrs. Doubtfire) as young Matilda, a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid, self-involved parents (DeVito and Rhea Perlman). Ignored at home, Matilda escapes into a world of reading, exercising her mind so much she develops telekinetic powers. Good thing, too: sent off to a school headed by a cruel principal, Matilda needs all the help she can get. DeVito takes a highly stylized approach that is sometimes reminiscent of Barry Sonnenfeld (director of Get Shorty, a DeVito production), and his judgment is not the best in some matters, such as letting the comic-scary sequences involving the principal go on too long. But much of the film is delightful and funny. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

I love this!, 2010-03-03
I have loved this movie since I first saw it on television when I was a child. I am glad to have the special edition with the additional content. It enhances the movie as well as the world it is set in.

Kid's Review, 2010-01-22
Warning This Is a WHITCH Movie which means this is A Bad movie, I Just Really Didn't Like this movie because Of the whitchcraft. And then it turned out That this is an EVIL movie. and I Got 6 words For this Pile of junk. 1 the Child called Matilda was a Gentle girl but, there was a Problem with this movie, that witches are helping Matilda . 2 the Invincible Whitches Attacking the teacher, oh and 3 the teacher.Shes a Really monstrous human The teacher is throwing them out thru the Window Holding them by the hair , and calling them well she says kind of a Ugly words. 4 Matildas Parents are like if her parents had a bad Family, 5 Matilda teaching her parents a lesson and That is not Very Good, 6 The whole thing is Boring, I Don't know why People Keep Putting Great Reviews About this movie but. if you ask Me The Movie Called Hercules was bad enough But This Is the Worst Movie I've Ever Seen so make sure that you will see all the reviews Before buying A movie.

Matilda, 2010-02-08
Hi my name is Kamry Lawson have you ever seen Matilda I consider it to be one of my favorite movies of all time. It's about a little girl who used magic which we know me all want to use magic. The characters names are Matilda, Lavender, Miss Honey, and the mean Trunchbull. Matilda parents were the worse ever imagine your parents leaving you in the car when you were first born. By the time she was three she learned how to cooked pancakes everyday her parents, and brother would walk out, and leave her. When they left she would go to the library and sit in the corner, and read. At the age of seven she went to school. The only reason she got to go was because her dad made a plan with the Trunchbull. On her first day she met a girl named Lavender the two girls were in the same class, and evidently they became great friends. They were both in the same class Matilda favorite teacher was Miss Honey. If you where bad the Trunchbull would put you in the chokey it had holes and nails in the inside of the door. She would lock you in there for hours and leave. Matilda' parents was moving, but she got adopted by Miss Honey the two girls were happy living together.

Granddaughter loves this movie, 2010-01-14
I have always liked this movie. Bought it for my 4 year old granddaughter and she loves it, watches it almost every day.

A Gifted Child, A Caring Teacher, and an Odious Child-Hating School Principal, 2010-01-25
If you are a teacher or student who would like to get back vicariously at an unfair school principal, this movie is especially for you. The principal in this movie, Agatha Trunchbull, is worse than a martinet: She is diabolically mean, even reminiscent of some of the SS women in charge of the defenseless prisoners at Nazi-German concentration camps during WWII.

Eight-year old prodigy Matilda had been the offspring of parents who had no time for her. They cared only about money and pleasure. Her father was a proudly-dishonest used-car dealer, about to be busted by the FBI. She basically raised herself. When entering school, Matilda met her 2nd-grade teacher, Miss Honey, and soon showed that she was years ahead of all the other students in terms of academic skills. This teacher appreciated her talents and her increasingly-obvious magical skills, took her under her wing, and became her closest friend. Miss Honey exhibited a decidedly different vision of school teaching, and childrens' needs, than did the principal. Miss Honey was no less afraid of the principal than the children of that school.

So how to deal with the indifferent parents and the horrible child-hating principal? Watch this hilarious movie and you will be entertained and surprised.

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