Matilda
Summary: A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress.
Release Date: August 02, 1996
Director:
Danny DeVito
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 36,000,000
Domestic: $ 33,459,416
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