Matilda. Fans of the book and the 1996 movie adaptation will remember that Matilda follows Matilda Wormwood, the intellectually gifted child of two shallow and negligent parents who trains her brain on great works of literature until she can move objects with her mind.
Together with her perfect teacher, Miss Honey, little Matilda gets revenge on her bullying principal Miss Trunchbull and saves her classmates from years of prison-like school conditions.
In the Danny DeVito-directed movie, a very family-friendly version of the story, the Wormwoods live in '90s America, though the musical, which ran on Broadway and the West End in the early 2010s, is set in Britain, like the book.Now that the Tony-winning production is being made into a movie.
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