Matilda

“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

A small girl reads books nobody expects her to understand, while her parents, Harry (Danny DeVito) and Zinnia (Rhea Perlman) Wormwood, never notice a thing. At school, the gentle Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz) sees what she can do, and the headmistress Trunchbull (Pam Ferris) rules the halls with cruelty. Matilda (Mara Wilson) also finds she has a gift, and the film treats a clever child as someone adults ought to listen to.