Matilda [DVD] [1996]

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Netflix's new Roald Dahl animated series 'reimagines' Matilda and Willy Wonka" Archived 13 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Now, Netflix UK has revealed the highly anticipated movie will air on the streaming platform this summer for those who missed it on the big screen. The film received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for Outstanding British Film and Best Makeup and Hair at the 76th British Academy Film Awards.

In Honey's classroom, Matilda solves a complex mathematical equation on the board and confesses that she loves reading most.

She nurtures Matilda’s talent, but turns out to have an awful secret – revealed as Matilda liberates the school from the Trunchbull tyranny. Despite her parents' constant disdain, Matilda becomes a sweet child who loves reading and visits the mobile librarian Mrs. 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. However, fans outside the UK who are desperate to watch the movie from the comfort of their own home will be pleased to learn that Netflix is distributing the movie across its streaming service around the world on 25th December 2022. Christopher Nightingale composed original incidental music to underscore the film, just as he did onstage.

Riseborough, who received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley, has appeared in a vast array of acclaimed movies such as The Death of Stalin, Nocturnal Animals and Birdman. Suzie Wilson was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 1995 during filming, and later died on April 27, 1996, four months before the film's release. During the students' lunch, Trunchbull falsely accuses Matilda of stealing a slice of her private chocolate cake, but Bruce Bogtrotter accidentally reveals he is the culprit by belching.With Miss Honey as the new headmistress, the students rename Crunchem Hall The Big Friendly School and renovate the school with a new playground and a giraffe. After discovering the car Harry sold her was faulty, Trunchbull locks Matilda in the chokey as punishment. It might be disappointing (and a bit baffling), but it makes sense, and is one of the reasons the film is so good. I was bullied at school, and the books that really spoke to me were the ones where there was real darkness,” Thompson said. And, of course, her own hammer-throwing skills are dusted off when she has to throw a girl over the perimeter wall after grabbing her by the pigtails and whirling her round her head.

The plot centers on the titular child prodigy who develops psychokinetic abilities and uses them to deal with her disreputable family and the tyrannical principal of her school. Following disagreements between Danny Devito and Bregman-Baer Productions over budgetary concerns, Universal put Matilda into turnaround, with Columbia's TriStar Pictures picking up the project.Jacqueline Steiger as Amanda Thripp; Matilda's timid classmate who has pigtails which Miss Trunchbull hates.