A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress.A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress.A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 7 nominations
- Luther
- (as Goliath Gregory)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMara Wilson's mother Suzie Shapiro Wilson died of breast cancer while the movie was being filmed. Mara honored her mother by bravely finishing "Matilda", which was dedicated to her mother's memory.
- GoofsWhen Miss Trunchbull puts Matilda in the Chokey, she bumps into one of the nails sticking through the door and it shakes like it's rubber.
- Quotes
Matilda: Daddy, you're a crook.
Harry Wormwood: What?
Matilda: This is illegal.
Harry Wormwood: [hands the car drill to Mikey, then walks to Matilda] You make money? Do you have a job?
Matilda: No, but don't people need good cars? Can't you sell good cars, Dad?
Harry Wormwood: Listen, you little wiseacre: I'm smart, you're dumb; I'm big, you're little; I'm right, you're wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it.
- Crazy creditsNewts:
- Mr. Speaker
- Sir Isaac
- Wayne
- Alternate versionsFreeform and TBS airings in the US as well as YTV airings in Canada strangely have the 1993 TriStar Pictures logo plastered with the 1984 Tri-Star Pictures logo.
- ConnectionsEdited into Funny or Die Presents...: Fifty Shades of DeVito (2018)
- SoundtracksSend Me On My Way
Written by Michael Glabicki, Liz Berlin, John Buynak, Jim DiSpirito (as James Dispirito, James DiSpirito), Jim Donovan (as James Donovan), Patrick Norman, and Jenn Wertz
Performed by Rusted Root
Courtesy of Mercury Records
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Licensing
The dialog is brilliant. The humor is both bold, and subtle. The characters are archetypal.
Matilda perfectly captures what it is like to be an intelligent person, trapped in the body of a child, and surrounded by idiots who control far too much of your life.
The notion that bad people (even adults) deserve to be punished for their evil ways (even by children) is truly subversive. Any child who suffered through the countless typical abuses of unthinking, uncaring, and ignorant parents will truly love this movie. Those same unthinking, uncaring, and ignorant parents will probably hate this movie, unless they are wise enough to see the truth behind the fantasy.
Despite the difficulties Matilda faces, like all good fantasies this movie has a wonderfully happy ending. I wish the same for all.
- richard-786
- Mar 24, 2005
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Roald Dahl's Matilda
- Filming locations
- 15811 Youngwood Drive, Whittier, California, USA(Wormwoods' house; exterior)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $36,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,459,416
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,208,609
- Aug 4, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $33,460,154
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
- 2.39 : 1