"Everyone is born." "But not everyone is born the same." "Some will grow to be butchers, or bakers or candlestick makers." "Some will only be good at making Jell-O salad." "One way another though, every human being is unique, for better or for worse." "Most parents believe their children are the most beautiful creature that ever graze in the planet." "Others take a less emotional approach." "What a waste of time." "And painful." "And expensive. $9.25 for a bar of soap!" "Well, I had to take a shower, Harry." "$5,000!" "I'm not paying it!" "What are they going do?" "Repossess the kid?" "There's no way out." " Make a U-turn." "Harry!" "Haarr-ryyy!" "The Wormwood guy is back!" "Harry and Zinnia Wormwood lived in a very nice neighbourhood." "In a very nice house." "But they were not really nice people." "Get out of the street, you little dodos!" "The Wormwoods were so wrapped up with their own silly lives, that they barely noticed they had a daughter." "If they had paid any attention to her at all,  they'd realize she was rather an extraordinary child." "Oh, my gosh!" "Matilda!" "Now look what you did!" "They named her, Matilda." "You're supposed to eat the spinach!" "Ugh!" "Ew, ew, ew, ew..." "Babies." "You're better off raising tomatoes!" "By the time she was 2, Matilda had learned what most people learned in early thirties." "How to take care of herself." "As time went by, she developed a sense of style." "Every morning, Matilda's older brother," "Michael, went to school." "Bye, Mom!" "Come on, get out of here." "Her father went to work." "Selling used cars for unfair prices." "Make money!" "And her mother took off to play Bingo." "Soup's on the stove." "Heat it up, if you get hungry." "Matilda was left alone." "That was how she liked it." "By the time she was four, Matilda had read every magazine in the house." "One night, she gathered up her courage and asked her father for something shedesperatelywanted." "A book?" "Why do you want a book for?" "To read." "To read?" "Why would you want to read, when you got the television set sitting right in front of ya?" "There's nothing you get from a book that you can't get from the television fiesta." "Get out of the way." "Matilda already knew that she was somewhat different from her family." "She saw that whatever she needed in this world, she'd have to get herself." "Bye!" " Chow!" "There's fish fingers in the microwave." "The next morning after her parents left, Matilda set off in search of a book." "Where are the children's books, please?" "In that room right over there." "Would you like me to pick out one with lots of pictures in it?" "No, thank you." "I'm sure can manage." "From then on, every day as soon as her mother went to bingo," "Matilda walked ten blocks to the library." "And devoured one book after another." "When she finished all the children's books," "She started wandering around and searching for something else." "Mrs. Phelps, who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks, offered Matilda some valuable library information." "You know, you can have your very own library card, and then you can take books home." "And you wouldn't have to walk here everyday." "You can take as many as you like." "That would be wonderful." "So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurturedbythevoicesof all those authors who had sent their books out of the world, like ships onto the sea." "These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message:" "You are not alone." "Did any packages come today?" "Uh-um" "Where did all this come from?" "The library." "The library?" "You never set foot in the library." "You're only 4 years old!" "6 and the half." "You're 4!" "6 and the half." "If you're 6 and the half, you'd be in school already." "I want to be in school." "I told you I was suppose to start school on September." "You wouldn't listen." "Get up." "Get up." "Now, here." "Give me that book!" "Dearest pie, how old is Matilda?" "Four." "I'm 6 and the half, Mummy." "5 then." "I was six in August." "You're a liar." "I want to go to school." "School?" "It's out of question." "Who'd be here to sign for the packages?" "We can't leave valuable packages sit on the doorstep." "Now go watch TV like a good kid." "You know sometimes I think there's something wrong with that girl." "Hmph." "Tell me about it." "Hey, dip face!" "Have a marshmallow." "Have another marshmallow!" "Dip face." "Dip face!" "Sometimes, Matilda longed for a friend," "Someone like the kind, courageous people in her books." "It occurred to her that like talking dragons and princesses - with hair long enough to climb such people might exist only in story books." "But Matilda was about to discover that she can be her own friend." "That she had a kind of strenght she wasn't even aware of." "I'm great!" "I'm incredible!" "Michael, pencil and paper." "In the kitchen." "Did we sell some cars today, honey do?" "Did we?" "!" "Does that mean I can get that new TV?" "Yeah!" "Son, one day you're gonna have to earn your own living." "It's time you learn the family business." "Sit down!" "Write this down." "Alright." "The first car your brilliant father sold cost $320." "I sold it for $1,158." "The second one cost $512." "I sold it for $2,269!" "Wait, daddy." "You're going too fast." " Just write." "The third cost $68." "I sold it for $999." "And the fourth cost $1,100." "I sold it for 7,839 big American boffos!" "Oh, Harry!" "What was my profit for the day?" " Can you repeat the last four" "$10,265." "Check it if you don't believe me." "You're a little cheat." "You saw the paper." " From all the way over here?" "Are you being smart with me?" "If you're being smart with me, young lady, you're gonna be punished." "Punished for being smart?" "For being smart elect." "When a person is bad, that person has to be taught a lesson." "Person?" " Get up!" "Harry Wormwood had unintentionally given his daughter the first practical advice she could use." "He meant to say, "when the child is bad"." "Instead, he said, "when a person is bad"." "Thereby, he introduced the revolutionary idea that children could punish their parents." "Only when they deserved it, of course." "Michael, come into my room!" "What?" "My boy, today is the day to take you to the shop." "What do you say?" "I don't know." "What do you say, dad?" "I say appearances is not intense as the law." "People don't buy a car." "They buy me." "Whish is why I personally takes such pride in my appearance." "Well-oiled hair." "Clean shave." "Snappy suit." "Now, roll along and get ready for the big day of learning, kid." "It's gonna be a big day of learning too." "There's a sucker born every minute." "We're gonna take them for all they've got." "Give me the cookies." " Here." "Okay, my boy!" "Heir to the throne!" "Today we diddle the customers." "What's wrong with you?" "What are you looking at?" "Lovekins, where's my breakfast?" "Here we are, my heartstrings..." "Snicker doodle." "What did you do to your hair?" "My hair?" "Give me those things." "Give me that." "Where're you going with those?" "Give me those." "Get in the car." "Go on." "Get in." "Dirty dealings, like buying stolen car parts, never stay secret for long." "Especially when the FBI gets involved." "9:17." "Subject exits domicile." " I've got 9:18." "9:17 is correct." "Michael, one day all this will be yours." " This?" "See this Junker?" "I paid $100 for it." "She's got 120,000 miles on her." "Transmission's shot." "Bumpers are falling off..." "What do I do with her?" "I sell her!" "We should weld these bumpers on, but that takes time, equipment and money." "So we use Super Super Glue instead." "Go ahead." "Put it on there." " Won't it fall off?" "Definitely." "Isn't that dangerous?" "Not to me." "Okay?" "Transmission!" "The sawdust quiets to ears and lets the engine run sweet as a nut." "For a couple of miles." "Daddy, that's cheating." "Of course, it's cheating." "Nobody ever got rich being honest." "20 years ago, we could turn the numbers back by hand." "Here." "Take my hat." "But the Feds like to test the ingenuity of American businessmen." "Two-directional drill." "If you run it backwards, the numbers go down." "Watch it speed up." "Cool!" "See?" " Yeah." "Daddy, you're a crook." "What?" "This is illegal." "Here, keep drilling." "Do you make money?" "Do you have a job?" "No." "But don't people need good cars?" "Can't you sell good cars, dad?" "Listen, you little wise-acher." "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." "Harry, I won!" "I won!" "I hit the double bingo!" "Come on, everybody!" "I'm taking you all to Cafe Le Ritz!" "Let me see the money!" "Nevermind." " Double bingo, huh?" "God, your hair looks awful!" "I hope they'll let you in." "They'll let me in." "Here's your hat, Daddy." "Get in the car." "Go on, get in." "How much?" "It's for me to know and you to find out." "It's nice to go out sometimes, isn't it?" " Yeah." "You never take us out." " 'Course I do." "I took you to The Flipper." "I don't remember any The Flipper." "The fish joint." "You found that comb in the boule base." "Oh, yeah!" "I like that joint." "Bonjour." "This way, please." "Harry, take your hat off." "I can't." "This is a nice place." "You can't wear a hat inside." "I can't take it off." "Harry, nobody cares what your hair looks like." "I can't get it off." "Just a minute." "I'm gonna get this hat off." "I'm pulling it." "I think your head swelled up really bad." "You're pulling the skin!" "You're such a baby!" "Stop it!" "The fibres are fused to the head!" "Fibres are fused..?" "What is that supposed to mean?" "I will not be a figure of ridicule!" "I want respect!" "And I want it now!" "I still don't see how you glued your hat on, Harry." "I mean, I know you say you didn't but obviously you did." "I did not glue my hat to my head!" "The hat shrunk." "The fibres fused to my hair!" "Baby, wait a minute!" "I'm getting it now." "I'm getting it." "One more." "Oh, my God!" "From now on, this family does exactly what I say, when exactly when I say it!" "Here's your hat." "And right now, we are eating dinner and watching TV." "Are you ready to get sticky with Mickey?" "Shut your light off." "For those idiots out there who don't know how to play, here's how it goes." "For each correct answer, you'll move one step closer to our cube of cash!" "Any money that sticks to your gooey body, you get to take home!" "Hi." "Dad." "Are you in this family?" "Hello." "Are you in this family?" "Dinner time is family time." "What is this trash you're reading?" "It's not trash, daddy." "It's lovely." "It's called "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville." "Moby what?" "This is filth!" "Trash!" "It's not mine!" "It's a library book!" " It's trash!" "I'm fed up with all this reading!" "You're a Wormwood!" "You start acting like one!" "Sit up and look at the TV!" ".. from playing our game." "Get real sticky and get cash for free." "Alright, that's enough." "Let's get sticky!" "I didn't do it." "Of course you didn't do it, you little twit!" "Told ya it was a cheap set." "It's not cheap set, it's a stolen set." "Put your light on!" "Was it magic, or coincidence?" "She didn't know." "It is said, we humans use only a tiny portion of our brains." "Matilda might never have discovered her own great strenght of mind, were not for the events that began on the very next day." "I need a car." "Unexpansive but reliable." "Can you service me?" "As a matter of speaking, yes." "Welcome to Wormwood Motors." "Harry Wormwood, owner and founder." "Whatever." "Agatha Trunchbull, Principal." "Crunchem Hall Elementary School." "I warned you, sir." "I want a tight car, because I run a tight ship." "Oh yeah, huh?" "Well, I uh" "My school is a model of discipline." ""Use the rod." "Beat the child."" "That's my motto." "Terrific motto." "Do you have brats yourself?" "Yeah." "A boy, Mikey, and one mistake, Matilda." "They're all mistakes, children." "Filthy, nasty things." "Glad I never was one." " A-ha!" "Well, since you're an educator," "I'm gonna make you great deal." "You had better." " Let's do business." "Thank you." "Enjoy it." "Thank you." "Enjoy it." "Hey, you." "You're going to school." "I am?" "!" " First thing tomorrow." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "OK." "OK." "You'll get a real education at this place." "Matilda had always wanted to go to school because she loves to learn." "She tried to imagine what her new school would be like." "Go ahead!" "She pictured a lovely building, surrounded by trees and flowers and swings." "Well, there was a building." "And children!" "So regardless what Crunchem Hall looked like, she was happy to be there." "Hey, wait up!" "After all, any school is better than no school at all." "Isn't it?" "You!" "Detention!" "You're too small." "Grow up quicker!" "Heads up!" "Shoulders back!" "Stomach in!" "Stand up straight!" "Hey" " Sorry." "That's OK." "It's much better than being out there." "Is that my teacher?" "No, that's the principal." "Miss Trunchbull." "You've got to be kidding." " Uh-uh." "You squirts better get out though." "I'm not kidding." "The Trunchbull likes to snap a whip if she sees who's trying to hide." "Change those sock!" "Too pink!" "I'm Matilda." " Lavender." "I'm Hortensia." " Hi!" "She doesn't really hit children with that line of prop, does she?" "No." "It mostly for scare." "What she does is worst." "Like yesterday, in the second grade." "The Trunchbull makes weekly visits to every classroom." "To show the teachers a thing or two about how to handle kids." "And Julius Rottwinkle ate two MMs during her lesson." "And she caught him?" "Of course!" "Was Julius okay?" " After being thrown out of the window?" "Of course, he wasn't okay." "He lived is that what you mean." "The Trunchbull used to be in the Olympics." "Shot-put, javelin, hammer throw." "The hammer throw is her speacialty." " So she does this all the time?" "Better than being put in the Chokey." " Chokey?" "Yeah, the Chokey." "It's a tall narrow hole in the wall." "Behind the door, you have to stand in a drippy pipe with jagged edges." "And the walls have broken glass and nails sticking out." "Get inside, you festering bowl of pus!" "She puts kids in there?" "I've been in there twice." "Sometimes, she leaves you in there all day." "Didn't you tell your parents?" " They didn't believe me." "I mean, would your parents believe it?" "Sixty lines off the school." ""I must obey Miss Trunchbull"." "No." "Out of my way." "Here she comes!" "Ah!" "Fresh meat!" "Amanda Thripp." "Yes, Miss Trunchbull." "What are those?" " What's what, Miss Trunchbull?" "Hanging down by your ears?" "You mean my pigtails?" "Are you a pig, Amanda?" "No." "Miss Trunchbull." "Do I allow pigs in my school?" "My mommy thinks they're sweet." "Your mommy is a twit!" "You chop those off before school tomorrow, or I..." "But..." "But?" "But?" "!" "Did you say "but"?" "Hammer throw." " What?" "Definitely." "I'll give you "but"." "Good loft!" " Excellent release!" "Think she'll make the fence?" "Gonna be a close one." "Quiet!" "Get to class before I throw you all in the Chokey." "Lavender, what's my teacher like?" "Run." "Run." "Run!" "Faster!" "Get in!" "Quickly!" "Matilda's teacher, Miss Honey, was one of those remarkable people who appreciates every single child for who she or he is." "I scooped these up for you, Miss Honey." " Oh, how lovely." "Thank you, Amanda." "OK, listen up, everybody." "We have a new student with us today." "This is Matilda Wormwood." "I'd like you to sit over here with Lavender." "Now you all remember how scary your first day at school was." "So I would like you to be especially nice to Matilda." "And make her feel welcome." "Alright?" "Could you get her workbook for her, please?" " Yes, Miss Honey." "You can sit down." "Miss Honey was a wonderful teacher and a friend to everyone." "But her life was not as simple and beautiful as it seemed." "MissHoneyhadadeep  dark secret." "Though it caused her pain, she did not let it interfere with her teaching." "Well, Matilda." "You've come on a very good day." "Because we're going to review everything we've learned so far." "Now, it's alright if you don't understand any of this." "Because you're brand new." "But if you do know the answer, just raise your hand." "OK?" "Alright." "We've been working on two times tables." "Is there anyone who'd like to demonstrate?" "OK." "Let's do some together." "2 x 4 is?" " 8." "2 x 6 is?" " 12." "2 x 9 is?" " 18." "Excellent!" "You've been practicing." "Pretty soon you'll be able to do any multiplication, whether it's 2 x 7?" "14." " Very good." "Or 13 x 379." "4,927." "I beg your pardon?" " I think that's the answer." "13 x 379 is 4.927." "It is." " Wow." "Matilda, do you know how to multiply big numbers?" "I read this book last year on mathematics in the library." "You like to read?" " Oh yes." "I love to read." "What do you like to read?" "Everything." "But I've been reading Darls Chickens." "Charles Dickens." "I could read him every day." "So could I." "All right, everyone." "Take out your workbooks and let's start with section three." "I'll be back in a moment." "He he." "Gotcha!" "Straight in the neck." "And you, woo-ho-ho-ho.." "Come in." "Come in, whoever you are." "Almost got you." "Good to see you, Jen." "Good, good, good." "Time for one of our little heart-to-hearts?" "Actually it's about the new girl in my class, Miss Trunchbull." "Matilda Wormwood." "Her father says she's a real wart." "A what?" "A carbuncle." "A blister." "A pestering pustule of malignant ooze." "Oh no." "Matilda Wormwood is a very sweet girl." "And very bright." "A bright child?" "Yes, she can multiply large sums." "In her head." "So can a calculator." "Well, I-I think she might be happier in an older and more advanced class." "Ah!" "I knew it!" "You can't handle the little viper, so you're trying to force her to one of the other teachers." "No, no, no, Miss Trunchbull..." " Yes." "Typical, slothful cowardice!" "Listen to me, Jen." "The distance the shot-put goes depends upon the effort you put into it." "Perspiration!" "If you can't handle the little brat, I'll lock her in the Chokey!" "Get it?" " Yes." "Ma'am." "One day, Jen, you'll see that everything I do is for your own good." "And the good of those putrescent, little children!" "Mom." "I'm home." " Oh, how was school?" "The thing with Valerie" " School was great." "My teacher let me do sixth grade work." "Look." "Algebra and Geography." "Hold on a minute." "Can't you see I'm in the middle of an important phone call?" "But you just asked me how school was." "Quiet." "What else she suppose to do." "The baby wasn't his." "Well, it was really great." "No way." "They've got to be implants." "The principal is insane." "She threw a girl over the fence by her hair." "It will change your life too if you wax yours, I'm positive." "I have the most wonderful teacher." "Mine is driving me crazy." "I'm telling you, six hours a day at school is not enough." "I'll say." "Haiya!" "A whack to the belly." "A smack to the face." "Another smack in the face." "Burns is hurt." "He's on the roads, ladies and gentlement." "Saved by the bell." "Packages at this hour?" " Come here." "OK." "Hello." " We don't give money, we don't like charities, we don't buy ruffle tickets." "Um, Mr Wormwood." "I-I'm Jennifer Honey." "I'm Matilda's teacher." "What's she done now?" "You!" "Go to your room, right now!" "Right now!" "Beat it!" "Look, whatever it is." "She's your problem now." "No." "There is no problem." "Then beat it." "We're watching TV." "Mr Wormwood." "If you think watching some rotting TV show is more important than your daughter, then maybe you shouldn't be a parent." "Now why don't you turn that darn thing off and listen to me." "Alright." "Come on in." "Get this over with." "Mrs. Wormwood is not gonna like this." "Come on." "Get in." "Close the door." " Who is it?" "Some teacher." "She says she's got to talk to you about Matilda." "What did you do that for?" "He has left quest on the ropes." "What do you want?" "I-I'm sure you're a ware by now, that Matilda has a brilliant mind." "Yeah, right." "Mikey, give me a beer." "Her math skills are simply extraordinary." "She's reading material that I" "Want one?" "Oh, no thank you, dear." "T-The material that I didn't see until my second year of college." "Oh, college!" " Great!" "College!" "." "I really feel with private instruction that she'd be ready for college in just a few short years." "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 were slaving away teaching snout knows children their ABC's." "You want Matilda to go to college?" "College." "I didn't go to college." "I don't know anybody who did." "A bunch of hippies and cesspool salesmen." "Don't sneer at educated people, Mr Wormwood." "If you became ill, heaven forbid, your doctor would be a college graduate." "Yay." "Or say you were sued for selling a faulty car, the lawyer who defended you would have gone to college, too." "What car?" "Sued by who?" "Who you've been talking to?" "No-nobody." "Oh dear, I can see we're not going to agree." "Are we?" "No." "I'm sorry I burst in on you like this." "Sorry." "We ought to sue her off for interrupting our show." "Tell me about it." "Why's he standing in the middle of the ring?" "He's standing in the middle of the ring because it's over." "Thank you." " We missed it?" "See you tomorrow." "Great." "It's over." "Who won?" "How do I know." "You shut it off." "Was it my fault that she came in the middle of the fight?" "Hop-to-hippity-hop." "The entire school will go to the assembly room immediately!" "Sit!" "What's up?" " Beats me." "Bruce Bogtrotter." "Would little Brucey come up here, please?" "He lives on my block." "This boy, Bruce Bogtrotter, is none other than a vicious sneak thief." "You're a disgusting criminal, aren't you?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Cake." "Chocolate cake." "You slithered like a serpent into the school kitchen and ate my personal snack!" "Do you deny it?" "Confess!" "Well, it's hard for me to remember a specific cake." "This one was mine." "And it was the most scrumptious cake in the entire world." "My mom's is better." "It is, is it?" "How can you be sure unless you have another piece?" "Sit down, Bog." "Here we go." "Smells chocolatey, eh?" "Now." "Eat it!" "I don't want any." "Thank you." "Eat it!" "Don't eat it." "She wouldn't give him cake." " It's poison." "Something's up." "You look like you enjoyed that, Brucey." " Yes." "Ma'am." "You must have some more." " No thanks." "But you'll hurt the cook's feelings." "Huh?" "Cookie!" "She made this cake just for you to have one your very own." "Her sweat and blood went into this cake." "You will not leave this platform until you have consume the entire confection!" "The entire confection!" "See you at lunch." " Thank you, Cookie." "Rotting kids." "You wanted cake, you got cake." "Now eat it!" "Poor Brucey." "He's going to puke." "I can't look." "Is he going to puke?" " Without a doubt." "Bruce looks real bad." " Give up?" "You can do it, Brucey!" "You can do it, Bruce!" "Yeah, you can do it!" "Go." "Bruce!" "Silence!" "Bruce!" "Bruce!" "Bruce...!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yeah!" "Silence!" "Stop!" "Silence!" "Yeah!" "Shut up!" "The entire assembly will stay five hours after school and copy from a dictionary!" "Any children who object will go straight into the Chokey." "Together!" "Code R's the official way of saying we've caught a bad one." "Young lady, where were you?" "Miss Trunchbull kept the whole school and kids late for a chocolate cake." "That's the biggest lie I have ever heard!" "You see those packages over there?" "They were left out there for the whole to see because you weren't here to take them in." "Well, I don't think it's fair, bumpkins." "What?" "You get all this stuff from catalogues and I don't get anything!" "It's not catalogues." "It's car parts, sweetness." "It's business." "Oh, if it's business, why don't you have it send to the office?" "Because the cops maybe watching the office." "The cops are watching the house." "What?" "They're parked outside, right now." "You are such an ignominious." "Those are speedboat salesmen." "Really nice guys." " Cops." "Speedboats?" "There are no lakes around here." "Yeah." "But some people like to go away on the weekends." "Some people have fun." "And some people are cops." "They're not cops!" " Are too." "They are not!" "I would know if cops watching my house." "Now go to bed, you're lying little earwig!" "With the FBI watching her father, and the Trunchbull terrorizing at school. - it was a rare and happy moment when Matilda could just play with her friends." "A frog!" "A frog!" "A frog!" "What is it." "Lavender?" " A frog!" "It's a salamander." " It's a chameleon." "It's a newt." ""Any of the semi aquatic salamanders from the genus triturus."" ""Some are brightly coloured and secrete irritating substances."" "Oh, keep going, you useless, flaming car!" "Wormwood!" "Sell me a lemon!" "You're heading for the Chokey, young lady!" "Chokey?" "Teach you a lesson!" "What lesson?" "You and your father think you can make a fool out of me!" "My father?" "The guy with the stupid haircut!" "I'm nothing like my father!" "You're the spitting image!" "The apple never rots far from the tree!" "Miss Honey!" "Miss Trunchbull teaches our class today, Lavender." "Please get the water pitcher." "But Miss Honey!" "Shh, be quickly." "She'll be here any second!" "Come on." "Make sure the water is cold, Lavender." "Hurry up." "Vinyl, cover the fish!" "Put away the art projects." "Put away anything colourful." "Oh Charlie, won't you get those crayons for me?" "Most great ideas come from hardwork and careful planning." "Of course, once in a while, they just jump out at you." "Rena." "Rena, cover the birds and the fields." "Hurry, hurry." "I hear her coming." "OK, now." "Last time, some of you forgotten yourselves." "Don't speak unless you're spoken to." "Don't laugh." "Don't smile." "Don't even breathe loudly." "Don't breathe at all." "Good morning, Miss Trunchbull." "Good morning, Miss Trunchbull." "Sit!" "Shoo." "I've never been able to understand why small children are so disgusting." "At the bane of my life, they're like insects." "They should be got rid of as earliest possible." "My idea of the perfect school is one in which there are no children at all." "Do you agree, Miss Honey?" "Now, you!" "Front of the class!" "Are you okay?" "Next time I tell you to empty your pockets, you do it faster, won't you?" "!" "Yes, Miss Trunchbull." "Miss Honey." "This could be the most interesting thing you've ever done." "Sit down, you squirming worm of vomit!" "Thank you, Miss Trunchbull." "Get up!" "Can you spell?" "Miss Honey taught us how to spell a long word yesterday." "We can spell "difficulty"." "You couldn't spell "difficulty" even if your life depend on it." "She taught us with a poem." "A poem." "How sweet." "What poem would that be?" "Mrs D. Mrs I. Mrs F. F. I." "Mrs C. Mrs U. Mrs L. T. Y." "Why are all these women married?" "Mrs D, Mrs I," "You're suppose to be teaching spelling, not poetry!" "Phew!" "I haven't the life for me to undertand why small children take so long to grow up?" "Think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me." "What's funny?" "Hm?" "Well, spit it out!" "Speak up!" "I like a joke as well as the next fat person." "It's a snake!" "It's a snake!" "One of you tried to poison me." "Who?" "Matilda!" "I knew it." "I just thought you'd like to know." "It's not a snake." "It's a newt." "What did you say?" "It's a newt." "Miss Trunchbull." "Stand up!" "You villainous sack of goats slimy, you did this!" "No." "Miss Trunchbull." "Did you act alone?" "Or did you have accomplices?" "I didn't do it!" "You didn't like the Chokey, did you?" "Thought you'd pay me back, didn't you?" "Well, I'll pay you back, young lady." "For what, Miss Trunchbull?" "For this newt, you pissworm!" " I'm telling you, I didn't do it!" "Besides, even if you didn't do it, I'm going to punish you." "Because I'm big and you're small, And I'm right and you're wrong." "And there's nothing you can do about it." "You're a liar." "The scoundrel." "Your father is a liar and a cheat!" "You're the most corrupt low-lifes in history of civilization!" "Am I wrong?" "I'm never wrong." "In this classroom." "In this school, I am God!" "You!" " I didn't move!" "You did this." "How could she possibly have done it when she was sitting way over here?" "I'll be watching you." "Each and every one." "When you turn the corner, when you go to your little cuppies to get your smelly little coats." "When you skip merrily at lunch." "I'll be watching you." "All of you." "And especially you!" "Thanks for not telling." " Best friends don't tell." "She can really dance." "I'm gonna clean up this mess." "And I'll coming out to help you fill the brazier, OK?" "I'll be out there in a minute." "Miss Honey." " Yes, Matilda?" "Miss Honey, I did it." " Did what?" "I made the glass tip over." "Oh, sweetheart." "Don't let Miss Trunchbull make you feel that way." "Nobody did it." "It was an accident." "I did it with my eyes." "Watch." "I'll prove it to you." "It's wonderful you feel so powerful." "Many people don't feel powerful at all." "Come on." "Tip over." "Tip over the glass." "Come on." "Tip over the glass." "It's all right, Matilda." "I really did do it, Miss Honey." "One of the odd things about life is sometimes you can do somethings until you want to show someone, and then you can't." "Or sometimes you think something is broken and then you think you can fix" "This isn't like that." "Oh." "I don't know." "Maybe I made myself tired." "Matilda, would you like to come over to my house this afternoon?" "I'd like that very much, Miss Honey." "Good." "I just stare very hard and I can feel the strongness." "I feel I can move almost anything in the world." "You do believe me, don't you?" "Oh, I believe that you should believing whatever power you think you have inside of you." "Believe it with all your heart." "That's where Miss Trunchbull lives." "Why is there a swing?" "A girl I know used to live in that house." "Her life was good and happy." "When she was just two years old, her mother died." "Her father was a doctor." "And he needed someone to look after things at home." "So he invited the mother's stepsister to come and live with them." "But the girl's aunt was mean person who treated the girl very badly." "Trunchbull?" " Yes." "And the worst of all, when the girl was five, her father died." "How did her father die?" "The police decided he killed himself." "Why would he do such a thing?" "No one knows." "The end is happier." "She found a small cottage." "She rented it from this lovely old farmer for just 50$ a month and she carried an honey suckle and she planted hundreds of wild flowers." "And she moved out of the wicked aunt's house." "And she finally got her freedom." "Good for her." "Do you know why I told you this?" " No." "You were born into a family who doesn't always appreciate you." "But one day, things going to be very different." "Should we go inside and have tea and cookies?" "Yes, please." "OK." "It's the cottage from your story." " Yes." "The young woman is you!" "Then..." "No!" "Yes." "Aunt Trunchbull." "When I left my home, at Aunt Trunchbull's home." "I had to leave all my treasures behind." "Treasures?" "Photographs of my mother and father." "And a beautiful doll my mother gave me with a China face." "Lissy Doll, I called her." "Would you like some milk?" "Yes, please." "Why don't you run away?" "I often thought about it, but I can't abandon my children." "And if I couldn't teach, I'd have nothing at all." "You're very brave, Miss Honey." "Not as brave as you." "I thought grown-ups weren't afraid of anything." "Quite the contrary." "All grown-ups get scared, just like children." "I wonder what Miss Trunchbull is afraid of." "There she is!" "Shot-put." "Hammer throw." "Javelin." "Back." "Back." "Back." "She's afraid of a cat?" "Black cats." "She's very superstitious." "Poor kitty." "Oh, he's all right." "Hopefully." "Let's go get your treasures." "No, Matilda." "Well, she's gone." "Come on!" "Matilda!" "Miss Honey!" "Move, you piece of junkyard fodder!" "Shift, you filthy" "My house!" "Oh, my!" "My father's portrait was used to hang there." "Whoever painted the Trunchbull must have a strong stomach." "A really strong stomach." "We should go." "Father's chocolate box." "After supper, he'd take a chocolate and cut it in half." "And he'd always give me the bigger half." "When he died, Aunt Trunchbull counts them so I couldn't even sneak one." "She'd take a chocolate, put it into her lips and say:" "Much too good for children!" "Have one." "No." "She'd notice." "Where's Lissy Doll?" "Upstairs." "Matilda..." "This is my room." "That's my dad." "What's his name?" "Magnus." "I used to call him King Magnus." "And he called me Bumblebee." "I don't think Magnus killed himself." "Neither do I." "Is that Lissy Doll?" "Wormwood!" "You-- useless used car salesman scum!" "Come over here on your own now!" "With another car!" "Yes, I know what "caveat emptor" means, you low-life liar!" "I'm gonna sue you!" "I'm gonna burn down your shop!" "I'm gonna take that jalopy and shove up your bazonga!" "When I'm finish with you you're gonna look like road kill!" "You what?" "Come on." "Shouldn't we hide or something?" "Yeah, yeah." "Go to the end of the hall, down the stairs." "Go out the kitchen door." "I'll distract her." "Who's in my house?" "!" "Come out and fight like a man!" "Tally-ho!" "Come on." "Over there." "Some rats are gonna die today." "Oh, my goodness." "Feel my heart." "Weren't it the most scared you've ever been in your whole life?" "Come on, let's go." "She shouldn't be allowed to treat people like that." "Somebody got to teach her a lesson." "I know." "We'll wait until she leaves then." "Then we'll go get your doll." "What?" "Just kidding." "Come here." "Matilda, promise me you will never go back in that house again." "I promise." "OK." "Come on." "So, he came home with $2,000 cash and he threw it up in the air." "And we both swam in it like we were on "The Million Dollar Sticky"!" "Do you like that show?" "I love that show." "That was the old days." "Now he's got money in banks all over this planet." "But does he give me a dime?" "Matilda." "This is Bob and Bill." "They're cops." "They are not cops." "They are Ace Power Boat salesmen." "Baby face, I'm starved!" "Hi, Harry." "Who are you?" "What is this?" "A hot tub party?" "Get the hell out of here!" "I slaved all day and I come home you're entertaining a couple surfers dude body builders." "They're cops, Dad." "Are you interested in time-share?" "Get out." "You don't let me talk to people!" "I am in the cage, Harry." "I need to talk to somebody besides the stupid kids." "Oh yeah?" "!" "Well a man is entitled to come home and find dinner on the table!" "Without having a way through a convention of male strippers!" "Dad!" "What do you want?" "!" "Yell at me, okay?" "!" "Shut up and leave us alone!" "Yell at me again!" "Yell at you?" "!" "I'll come in there and pound your miserable hide!" "What do I have to do to gain respect around here?" "!" "I'm going to get you a chain like you have never had in your life!" "My word is law!" "No kids like being yelled at." "But it was precisely Harry's ranting and raving that gave Matilda the key to her power." "To unlock that power, all she had to do was practice." "You're a little cheat." "You're a Wormwood." "It'stimeyoustartactinglikeone!" "What are you?" "Stupid?" "I'm smart." "You're dumb." "The apple never rots far from the tree!" "I think there's something wrong with that girl." "I'm right." "You're wrong." "And there's nothing you can do about it." "If you're a Wormwood, it's time you start acting like one!" "That was one of my favorites, played especially for all you pretty ones -moving on, on the Sunday afternoon." "Playing music to make you smile." "So you better not touch that" "Shouldn't we have a search warrant to do this?" "Nah." "This guy is dirty." "We'll show this tape in court, what Wormwood do is cooked." "I'm sure that box is full of stolen car parts." "You've been taping whole week." "How about letting me handle that camera for a while?" "Do you know how to use it?" "Do you know about the zoom?" "The white balance?" "Do you know how to adjust the eye piece?" "I can handle it." "Besides, it's my turn." "Yeah." "Your turn to drop it." "I won't drop it." "Come on." "You two men are going to be in a lot of trouble very soon." "It's the female minor." "Aren't you suppose to be in school, young lady?" "I really hope you have a search warrant." "According to the accounts of jurisdiction law book I read in the library," "If you don't have one, you could lose your job or even go to federal prison." "Your father is going to federal prison." "And do you know where you'll end up?" "In the federal orphanage." "If you cooperate, we'll make sure it's a nice orphanage." "The kind with food and teeny-weeny cockroaches." "What do you say?" "There's another car in the making." "Your car is about to run a stop sign." "So she borrowed a little time for her dad to come to his senses." "But now." "Matilda had bigger fish to fry." "Much bigger." "Hey, dip face." "Where are you going?" "Out." "Hey, dip face." "Have a carrot." "Chew your food!" "You're an animal." "Having power isn't nearly as important as what you choose to do with it." "And what Matilda had in mind was nothing short of heroic." "Come on!" "Lissy Doll, come on." "Come on, Lissy." "Come on, doll." "Come on, Lissy." "Come on, come on, come on, Lissy!" "Please come here." "Leave me alone!" "Magnus!" "Miss Honey!" "Miss Honey!" "You'll never believe what I got you!" "Oh!" "Oh, Matilda." "Matilda." "I also brought you this." "I ate mine last night." "I will be teaching your class today." "In the time it took Miss Honey to get very very nervous," "Matilda had formulated a plan." "She is really raving mad." "What is it your father used to call you?" "Hummingbird?" "Bumblebee." "I'm sure she knows the doll's missing." "And he called her Trunchbull?" "No, I suppose he called her Agatha." "Yeah" "She called him Magnus, right?" "Yeah." "Yes." "Maybe I could go back to the house and put the doll back while she's in school." "No." "I can't do that." "Calm down, Miss Honey." "Really." "It's gonna be okay." "I promise." "Sweetheart, you promised you wouldn't go back into that house again." "I didn't." "I was on the garage roof." "I did it with my powers." "Good." "You did it with your powers." "Alright, I need to think." "Let's see." "Powers?" "I think I got them down." "Watch this." "And no more Miss Nice Girl." "Get inside!" "Get inside, quickly!" "Run, run, run!" "Get against the wall!" "Get against that wall, quickly!" "Don't make me wait!" "Water!" "And hold the newt!" "Join the ranks!" "Move!" "I am here to teach you all a lesson." "Sometimes in life, horrible and unexplainable things happen." "These things are a test of character." "And I have character." "Form a line across the room!" "Quickly!" "Run, run, run!" "Don't keep me waiting!" "Fill this gap!" "I expect you're wondering what I'm talking about." "Hm?" "Yes." "A child came to my house." "I don't know how." "I don't know when." "I don't know why." "Miss-Miss Trunchbull, may-may I...?" "No, you may not." "But I know a child came." "So, did you know it was illegal to enter someone's home without their permission?" "Yes, Miss Trunchbull." "Sir." "Stand up straight!" "Stomach in!" "Shoulders back!" "Do any of you recognise this?" "Let's play a game, shall we?" "Who was wearing a pretty, red hair ribbon yesterday - and isn't wearing one today?" "Can you answer me that?" "Who does this disgusting ribbon belong to?" "I shall personally see to it that the demented drooling, slime breath little Lilliputian who owns this disgusting ribbon will never see the light of day again!" "You!" "Miss Trunchbull, I-I was the one at your house last night." "I know it" "I broke your arm once before." "I can do it again, Jenny." "I am not seven years old anymore, Aunt Trunchbull." "Shut your holes!" "You will be put away in a place where not even the crows can land their droppings on you." "Look!" "The chalk!" "The blinds." ""Agatha"" ""This is Magnus."" ""Give my little Bumblebee her house and her money."" ""Then get out of town." "If you don't, I will get you."" ""I will get you like you got me."" ""That is a promise."" "No, no, no, but-but Miss Trunchbull." "Please don't throw him." "Lavender!" "It's the Trunch!" "Wow!" "Hey, you guys, look at this!" "Yes!" "Let go." "Wow!" "Cool." "I didn't know I could do that." "Pretty good, huh?" "And the Trunchbull was gone, never to be seen or heard from, never to darken a doorway again." "Miss Honey moved back into her father's house." "Of course Matilda was a frequent visitor." "Did you know the heart of a mouse beats the rate of 650 times a minute?" "My, where did you learn that?" "In a book." "It beats so fast." "It doesn't sound like its beating at all." "It sounds like it's humming." "Hey, you!" "Hey, we're leaving." "Come on, let's go." "Get in the car." "Hurry up." "Wrap all these cookies." "Come on." "We'll leaving." "Now." "I-I'd be happy to walk her home." "Well, nobody will be there." "We're moving to Guam." "Come on, let's go." "Guam?" "Yeah." "Daddy's not gonna be in his motors business anymore." "I don't want to leave!" "We're going on a permanent vacation!" "Yeah, we're gonna beat the speedboat salesmen to the airport." "I love it here!" "I love my school." "It isn't fair." "Miss Honey, please don't let them take" "Get in the car, Melinda!" "Matilda!" "Whatever!" "I want to stay with Miss Honey!" "Miss Honey doesn't want you." "Why would she want some snotty disobedient kid?" "Because she's the spectacular wonderful child and I love her." "Adopt me, Miss Honey!" "You can adopt me." "Look, I don't have time for all this legality." "One second, dad." "I have the adoption papers." "What?" "Hey, where did you get those?" "From a book in the library." "I had them and until I copied it with the xerox." "Are you hearing this, Harry?" "All you have to do is sign them." "I'll be an only child again!" "Shut up!" "I-I can't think with all these sirens!" "What do you think, pumpkin?" "You're the only daughter I ever had, Matilda." "And I never understood you." "Not one little bit." "Who's got a pen?" "Here." " Thanks." "And doing it perhaps the first decent thing they ever did for their daughter." "The Wormwood signing the adoption papers." "And here." " OK" "Come on." "Come here." "Turn around." "You're not gonna be calling us for support payments or some like that, huh?" "Oh, no, no, no." "We have everything we need." "Don't worry." "Ah, here." "Let's roll." "Chow!" "So Harry and Zinnia got away." "And as bad as things were before, that's how good they became." "Miss Honey was made principal of Crunchen Hall." "Which had to add another school because children never want to leave." "And Matilda found, to her great surprise, that life could be fun." "And she decided to have as much fun as possible." "After all, she was a very smart kid." "The happiest part of the story, is that Matilda and Miss Honey each got what they had always wanted:" "A loving family." "And Matilda never had to use her powers again." "Well." "I mean almost never." ""Call me Ishmael."" ""Some years ago, never mind how long, precisely...""