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	Rhea Perlman: Matilda - Movie
		In the book, Matilda is an introverted, sensitive kid who eventually develops the ability to move small objects, but it takes a lot of her energy to use it and she's usually exhausted afterwards.
		In the movie, Matilda is more of a typical "cute Hollywood kid" (not shy at all) who can move very large objects (and/or large numbers of objects) pretty much anytime without any difficulty or fatigue -- much like Samantha in "Bewitched".
		MATILDA, one of Danny DeVito's underrated masterpieces of humor, was released in 2.35:1.
	www.superiorpics.com /rhea_perlman/movie/1996_matilda.html (527 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Matilda
		Matilda is based on the novel by Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).
		Matilda is a fantasy based in grim reality and the absurdity of it all works very nicely.
		Matilda may be a wee bit talky for the littlest of kidlets, but there is nothing here that you would need to shield your child from.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/matilda.html (663 words)

	MATILDA
		Matilda enrolls there and finds Trunchbull, the former Olympian, to be a cross between a pit bull and a tyrant who claims "In this school, I am God." The other students are terrified of Trunchbull and Matilda finds a kindly soul in the form of her teacher, Ms.
		Matilda causes "ghostly-like" things to happen in Trunchbull's home (we know what's happening, but Trunchbull doesn't) and younger kids might not understand why the lights are going on and off, the windows opening and closing, and why a painting floats across the room.
		Matilda telekinetically causes food to be thrown at Trunchbull and then all of the other kids join in and throw lots of food and toilet paper rolls at her.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1996/matilda.html (2527 words)

	Matilda
		Matilda is a very intelligent and talented girl, but this fact is not appreciated by her parents.
		Matilda begins to discover her remarkable powers when the family are watching television and she is forced to watch - she wills the TV to blow up and it does.
		Matilda is very anxious to go to school, but her parents are not particularly interested.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Matilda.asp (1143 words)

	Coming Attractions Preview Room Presents Matilda
		Matilda (Mara Wilson) is an extraordinary girl, a child of wondrous intelligence.
		Matilda is a modern fairy tale, the story of a little girl who creates her own place in the world through strength, courage, and an exceptional knack for mischief.
		On the surface, Matilda appears to be this little, defenseless creature, and even though she's basically all alone in the world, she never loses her sense of identity or her sense of humor.," he notes.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/4954/matilda.html (928 words)

	Matilda (1996 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the movie, Matilda lives in the USA and most of the film was shot in the East Whittier district of Los Angeles, California.
		In the original book, Matilda's mother is not given a first name, but she is in the film, and the physical builds of Matilda's parents are inverted in the film.
		In the book, there is an extra prank in which Matilda borrows a parrot from a friend and puts in her chimney for the evening and so when the parrot speaks, the rest of the family believes that there is a burglar or a ghost in the house.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matilda_(film) (798 words)

	Times & Free Press Movie Reviews: "Matilda"
		Matilda is the unusually bright second child of Harry and Zinnia Wormwood (DeVito and his real-life wife, Rhea Perlman, dressed like sideshow rejects).
		Quite possibly the most negligent parents on Earth -- they leave infant Matilda in the car when they come home from the hospital -- the Wormwoods neither notice nor care that their daughter is reading Melville by age 4.
		Matilda finally convinces them to send her to school, but it turns out to be the dread Crunchem Hall.
	www.timesfreepress.com /cityscape/diversions/filmfinder/matilda.html (515 words)

	Film review: There's an edge of cruelty around new children's film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Of course, there are plenty of trained observers who say that vigilant adults are much more unsettled by Dahl on behalf of children than are the children themselves who read Dahl's books, often stories about children largely on their own in a universe driven by the absurdist rules of terrifying adults.
		Matilda is the second child born to Harry and Zinnia Wormwood (DeVito and Rhea Perlman).
		None of the children are shown to be in any way harmed; indeed, the pig-tailed girl seems to enjoy flying through the air, a trip which ends with a sleigh ride through a field of daisies and a bouquet of them in her hand.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/features/96/08/05/matilda.html (648 words)

	Matilda
		Matilda is played by a man in a kangaroo suit.
		Due to some Gouldian trickery, Matilda quickly makes his way up to being a champion, and the flick climaxes with a battle for the Heavyweight championship of the world.
		It's no wonder that this was one of the movies that killed American International Pictures, already nearing their casket in 1978, and only managing to churn out a couple more pics before becoming the similarly-doomed Orion.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Movie/1754/matilda.html (683 words)

	Matilda mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: When Matilda is trying to use her powers, she looks back at a thought when her mom said "I think there's something wrong with that child." You can see Matilda in the backround when in reality, when her mother had said that, she was not.
		Continuity: When Harry puts baby Matilda in the back of the car, in her baby car-seat, in one shot she is wrapped in a pink blanket with blue straps over her, but under the blanket.
		Continuity: When Matilda is on the counter and there's spinach sauce all over it, in a wideshot as Zinnia runs to her, Matilda has the jar of spinach sauce in her hand.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film807 (1046 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Movies & TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this quagmire of a movie, which pits the wooden Diesel against a host of adult buffoons, childish pranksters and dirty diapers, the role of "villain" is shared by "Serbians" and ninjas from North Korea.
		When Matilda is nearly 7 (played from this point on by Mara Wilson), her father finally enrolls her in school, choosing a medieval- like fiefdom run by the child-hating ogre Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris).
		Matilda's flamboyantly tacky, preening mother spends her days at the bingo hall, while Dad, a crooked used-car salesman, uses cheap, temporary fixes to pass off junk-heaps to unsuspecting buyers.
	www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/movies/article/0,1299,DRMN_23_3878462,00.html (965 words)

	MEGABLOG » Harry and Matilda: The Resolution
		Matilda had a nice time with Harry, and after the movie ended and they went home, she found she really missed Harry being around.
		The sad part was, Harry had initially made Matilda feel pretty special, and once they got to the movie, Matilda felt more like Harry had just wanted her to come along so he didn’t have to go alone, and not because of anything particularly special about her.
		So Matilda feels pretty compassionate toward Harry despite the fact that he did exactly the sort of thing to her that causes her freaky damage in the first place, and he did it knowing what that damage was.
	www.megspohn.com /?p=158 (453 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Matilda \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Keeping that in mind, "Matilda" falls somewhere between "James and the Giant Peach" and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" as a Dahl adaptation.
		With her powers, Matilda tries to set her parents straight and deal out revenge to the cruel headmistress.
		"Matilda" is rated PG for its cartoony violence as well as some mild vulgarity and one mild profanity.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1159,00.html (476 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Matilda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Matilda" is a good fantasy about a little girl, played by Mara Wilson, who as an intellectual, grows up alone and outcast by her crass, stupid and morally corrupt parents, well played by Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman.
		In addition to being a genius, it turns out that Matilda also posses the power of telekinesis, which she uses to punish those who deserve it.
		The only problem with it is that Matilda plays practical jokes on her parents to punish them for their bad behavior.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/matilda.html (348 words)

	Christian Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dahl, best known for the movie adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a master at creating stupid parents and evil authority figures that children love to hate.
		Matilda not only sheds the traditional submissive girl's role, "she navigates an obstacle course of comically abusive adults by using telekinetic powers...
		The book describes the occult formula: Matilda focused her mind on a glass of water, concentrated her energy, and imagined millions of little hands pushing the glass with the mysterious force flashing out from her eyeballs.
	www.cnetwork.co.uk /mag7.htm (797 words)

	Matilda by Roald Dahl - Book Review
		The relationship between Matilda and her parents is one of mutual dislike.
		Matilda is a genius: by age four she has read all the books in the children's section of her local library, and moved on to Dickens, Austen, and Hemingway.
		There is no love between Matilda and her parents, upon whom she exacts revenge for their awful behavior toward her.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /book-reviews/Matilda.html (739 words)

	Groundlings Review: Book Review: Nurse Matilda (Nanny McPhee)
		Another element that was introduced in the movie was the love interest between the widower Mr.
		In the movie, this was a tender love interest that kindled warmth for the story.
		One of the most heartwarming elements of the movie was to see the growth of the children in general and Simon (Thomas Sangster) in particular.
	www.groundlings-review.com /blog/2006/05/book-review-nurse-matilda-nanny-mcphee.asp (805 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Book worm
		When she's finally allowed to attend school, Matilda finds a friend and protector in her teacher, Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz), who recognizes Matilda for the remarkable child she is. But they both have to defeat the school's evil principal, Agatha Trunchbull (Pam Ferris, padded and hook-nosed and irresistibly villainous).
		Books put lots of ideas in Matilda's head -- courage, self-sufficiency, a sense of fairness, to name a few -- which she draws on (along with some other, special powers) to defeat the bullies who are the movie's bad guys.
		At the end of the movie Matilda has her nose in another book, and among the last words we hear her say are "Call me Ishmael." In other words, this end is another beginning, with Matilda waiting to see where the next story will lead her.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/tayl/1998/11/30tayl.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 (1212 words)

	DeVito directs a marvelous "Matilda'
		"Matilda," they seem to be having the time of their lives playing two of the most unenlightened, selfish, vulgar people ever to live; parents so self-absorbed that they can't remember how old their daughter is.
		The only place the movie loses momentum is during scenes with the angelic Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz), a teacher at Crunchem almost sweet enough to counteract the malign presence of Trunchbull.
		She bonds nicely with Matilda, but her goodness can't compete with the hilarious evil of Trunchbull and the Wormwoods.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/e/a/1996/08/02/WEEKEND11052.dtl&type=printable (462 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Comment on Movie Nitpick - Matilda - 1996Nitpickers.com - Movie Mistakes - Post and review ...
		When Matilda first discovers her powers, she dances in the room, and makes everything fly around.
		After she's done dancing, Matilda sits on the couth, moves her hands in a motion, signaling she wants the curtains open.
		Matilda was not trying to open the curtains the first time, she was yawning.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/comment.cgi?com=8345 (159 words)

	Matilda: Dahl Done Right! The Special Edition DVD – Needs Widescreen Presentation! \| eclipsemagazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		‘Matilda’ is the tale of a little girl who has the most nasty, despicable parents in the world.
		De Vito knows just how far into that darkness his movie can go, and enlists a number of talented actors to make things right.De Vito and his wife, Rhea Perlman, are marvelous as Matilda’s odious parents; Embeth Davidtz is perfect as the one sympathetic and inspiring teacher in Mrs.
		Trunchbull Trivia Game.This is a delightful package of features – ‘Matilda’s Movie Magic, detailing the film’s old school effects, is particularly wonderful [though being in widescreen, it gives us a taste of what the movie should look like, but doesn’t, thanks to the full screen presentation].
	www.eclipsemagazine.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=1433 (1169 words)

	Access, Internet, and Public Libraries - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 1996 children's movie, Matilda, provides a useful context for this report of facts and opinions surrounding the issue of children's access to the Internet in public libraries.
		So, the narrator reminds us, "Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world, like ships onto the sea.
		These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message, 'You are not alone.'" And things continued like that until, one day, when Matilda's father discovered that she could read and that she had, in fact, been to the library.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/practicing/focusareas/technology/libraryaccess/introduction.html (874 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - Matilda - 1996Nitpickers.com - Movie Mistakes - Post and review nitpicks on your ...
		We see Matilda squeeze her eyes shut and various scenes where her parents and teachers yelled at her play out in the flashback.
		In one flashback, Matilda's mother is doing her hair in the mirror and mutters that she thinks there's something wrong with Matilda to her husband while Matilda is seen in the reflection of the mirror.
		But in the actual scene earlier in the movie, Matilda leaves the room before her mother says it.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=36826 (159 words)

	DVDFanatic.com News: 06/07/05 - DVD REVIEW: "Matilda: Special Edition"
		Matilda, a reader since age two, finds solace in two places: her library books and with her gentle teacher, the lovely Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz).
		Matilda's parents are not the only villains in her life; she also faces the fearsome Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), the principal of Crunchem Hall.
		Matilda is a movie based on a book about a precious little girl who loves books.
	www.dvdfanatic.com /news.php?id=0506071 (1228 words)

	Matilda News
		Matilda News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Wormwood, the mean mother from the movie 'Matilda.' Their parents and teachers called her Carla.
		You may remember her best as the inimitable Carla Tortelli, the sassy waitress from the hit TV sitcom, "Cheers," but Rhea Perlman also is the writer of the children's chapter book series, "Otto Undercover."...
	www.topix.net /movies/matilda (70 words)

	Matilda Movie Mistake : Foil Candy
		When Matilda goes back to Trunchbull's house she looks in the window and watches Trunchbull eat a chocolate, but she never removes the wrapper
		It is put in the movie to show how horrible the Trunchbull is. It shows the same thing in the book Matilda.
		In the Willy Wonka movie with Johnny Depp...
	www.slipups.com /items/2315.html (296 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: Matilda, Mara Wilson, DVD, Pan & Scan
		Matilda, for instance, has the bad luck to be born to the neglectful Wormwoods -- DeVito and real-life wife Rhea Perlman -- who discourage her love of books.
		Matilda is rated PG for "exaggerated meanness and ridicule." This includes harrowing scenes of the verbally abusive Trunchbull shot-putting children out the window.
		i think the movie was great just like the book and i also think it was partially funny with all the tricks matilda did on her parents and mrs trunchbull.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=43396013537&userid=ox7uDDSBWi&frm=0&itm=1 (997 words)

	Matilda Movie Quotes - Atlyrics.com
		Matilda Wormwood: I want to stay with Miss Honey.
		Matilda Wormwood: I thought grown-ups weren't afraid of anything.
		Matilda Wormwood: I wonder what Miss Trunchbull is afraid of.
	www.atlyrics.com /quotes/m/matilda.html (420 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Matilda
		MATILDA is a live action film with Danny DeVito as the producer, director, and one of the stars.
		In MATILDA, Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson) is born to the worst parents imaginable.
		The wide-angle camerawork by Cinematographer Stefan Czapsky is effective at accentuating the evil in Matilda's young life.
	all-reviews.com /videos-3/matilda.htm (742 words)

	Amazon.com: Matilda: Video: Kiami Davael,Embeth Davidtz,Pam Ferris,Gregory R. Goliath,Leor Livneh Hackel,Jean Speegle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Matilda's parents (Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman) realize that she is old enough for school (sort of late) they send her to a private school run by a horribly mean woman who hates children.
		Matilda is played by the same actress who was in the remake of Miracle on 34th Street.
		This movie, (based on a great children's novel by the late Roald Dahl) is about a little girl named Matilda Wormwood, who is mistreated by her parents, her brother, and a wicked school principal Miss Trunchbull.
	www.amazon.com /Matilda-Kiami-Davael/dp/0800196775 (2058 words)

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