Harry Wormwood

It occurred to her that such talking dragons and princesses with hair long enough to climb, such people might only exist in storybooks.

But she was about to discover she had a strength, a strength she wasn't even aware of." Two, "Harry Wormwood had unintentionally given his daughter the first practical advice she could use.

He had meant to say, 'When a child is bad.' Instead, he said, 'When a person is bad,' and thereby introduced a revolutionary idea, that children could punish their parents only when they deserved it, of course." One, "No more Miss Nice Girl." Okay, there.

Now that we did that, we can focus on being six years old, having a family that's annoying and sometimes downright mean, and honing our special powers to use to punish people, but only people who actually deserve punishment.

It was Pete's part.

Um, Pete was Michael and understudy Mr. Wormwood.

Amazing.

Actually, the fir- the first-- So when you get the job, they invite you to see the show, give you free-

... tickets so you know what you're getting yourself into.

[chuckles]

And, uh, Pete was understudy Mr. Wormwood, uh, on-

Wow

And we read them.

All right, so the movie opens up on the face of a baby, and as the camera zooms out, we meet the Wormwoods family after the mom has given birth to Matilda.

Since they throw this baby in the backseat of the car all willy-nilly, we are quickly introduced to the fact that they are not good people.

We get a montage of how neglectful they are, including leaving Matilda to fend for herself as a toddler, refusing to enroll her in school because they need her to sign for the packages that show up.

Miss Trunchbull is terrified, tries to attack the students, but Matilda uses her powers.

to a little one-two and saves everybody and they all run Ms. Trunchbull out of the school.

Ms. Honey moves back into her dad's house and then we get a scene where the Wormwoods are actually about to move to Guam because it has been found out that the daddy is a scammer.

Matilda refuses to go and says she wants to save Ms. Honey, pulls out adoption papers that she has had from the library for years Gives her parents a sign and is now adopted by Miss Honey.