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 »



Zinnia Wormwood:
Look, Miss Snit, a girl does not get anywhere by acting intelligent! I mean, take a look at you and me. You chose books - I chose looks. I have a nice house, a wonderful husband... and you are slaving away teaching snot-nosed children their ABCs. You want Matilda to go to college? Ha, ha, ha ha...

Harry Wormwood:
College? I didn't go to college. I don't know anybody who did. Bunch of hippies and cesspool salesmen, ha ha ha ha...

Miss Jennifer 'Jenny' Honey:
Don't sneer at educated people, Mr. Wormwood. If you became ill, heaven forbid, your doctor would be a college graduate.

Harry Wormwood:
Yeah...

Miss Jennifer 'Jenny' Honey:
Or - or say you were sued for selling a faulty car. The lawyer who defended you would have gone to college too.

Harry Wormwood:
What car? Sued by who? Who you been talking to?

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