"Matilda" is a wonderful movie directed by Danny De Vito and it is about a little girl who is far too good to be true. Matilda is a girl with extraordinary brainpower. Before she starts school, she is left all alone in the big empty house. Meanwhile, her father goes to his horrid used car shop, and her mother goes to play bingo. .
At age five-and-a-half she's solving double-digit multiplication problems and reading Dickens. She likes to read and study. So when in the morning Matilda's mom goes out to play bingo and her dad goes to his business with her brother going to school, Matilda goes to the library to read. She wants to go to school but her parents don't even notice that she is old enough to go there; they still think she is four. Unfortunately, her neglectful and deeply stupid parents, Harry and Zinnia Wormwood are too wrapped up in their own little lives to care, or even to notice that their daughter is a genius, in love with books and with learning. Things change, however, when Harry Wormwood, who is a very crooked used car salesman, sells a car to Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress of Crunchem Hall and is very impressed with her warlike approach to school, and permits Matilda to go. However Crunchem Hall is not an ordinary school. Crunchem hall, which even though hosts an ordinary teaching staff, is controlled by the iron fist of Miss Trunchbull. Miss Trunchball used to participate in the Scottish sport, throwing the hammer. At Crunchem Hall she has brought this technique to the classroom, throwing students who do not fit with her requests. There is the "chokey" in that school, which is a dark box, sized room, which students are locked in.
But Matilda finds a single light in warm-hearted Miss Honey, the first-grade teacher who recognizes the girl's remarkable skills - including a very special talent - to move things with her mind. Matilda uses her ability on her real enemy the Trunchbull.