Matilda

Matilda1996

Director: Danny DeVito
Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 102 minutes

First, the Iranian scholar Azar Nafisi of Johns Hopkins University discusses exile from her nation and teaching Western literature in Tehran after the revolution. Then, professor Harold Bloom of Yale University talks about Shakespeare's Hamlet. Last… more »



The Trunchbull:
[as she arrives at school] How could you keep going, you USELESS, FLAMING CAR?! [gets out of the car and approaches Matilda] WORMWOOD! Sell me a LEMON? YOU'RE HEADING FOR THE CHOKEY, YOUNG LADY! [starts dragging Matilda to the chokey by her arm]

Matilda:
Chokey?

Trunchbull:
Teach you a lesson!

Matilda:
What lesson?

The Trunchbull:
You and your father think you can make a fool out of me!

Matilda:
My father?!

The Trunchbull:
THE GUY WITH THAT STUPID HAIRCUT!

Matilda:
I'm nothing like my father!

The Trunchbull:
You're the spitting image! [puts Matilda in the chokey] The apple never rots far from the tree! [slams the door]

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