Matilda Page #4

I feel I can move almost anything.

- You do believe me. Don't you?

- You should believe in it.

Believe it with all your heart.

That's where Miss Trunchbull lives.

- Why is there a swing?

- A girl used to live in that house.

Her life was good and happy.

When she was two. her mother died.

Her father was a doctor. He needed

someone to look after things.

He asked the mother's stepsister

to live with them.

But the girl's aunt was mean

and treated her badly.

- Trunchbull?

- Yes.

- Then the girl's father died.

- How did her father die?

- The police said he killed himself.

- Why would he do that?

No one knows.

The end is happier.

She found a small cottage.

She rented it for $50 a month and

planted hundreds of wild flowers.

- And she moved out of the house.

- Good for her.

- Do you know why I told you this?

- No.

Your family doesn't appreciate you.

One day, things will be different.

- Should we have tea and cookies?

- Yes, please.

- It's the cottage from your story.

- Yes.

The young woman is you!

- Then... No!

- Yes.

Aunt Trunchbull.

When I left Aunt Trunchbull's home.

I left all my treasures behind.

- Treasures?

- Photos of my mother and father.

And a beautiful doll my mother

gave me. Lissy Doll, I called her.

- Milk?

- Yes, please.

Why don't you run away?

I've thought about it,

but I can't abandon my children.

- Without teaching I'd have nothing.

- You're very brave.

- Not as brave as you.

- I thought adults weren't afraid.

All adults get scared,

just like children.

I wonder

what Miss Trunchbull is afraid of.

I wonder

what Miss Trunchbull is afraid of.

There she is!

- Shot-put. Hammer throw.

- Javelin.

Back. Back. Back.

- She's afraid of a cat?

- Black cats. She's superstitious.

- Poor kitty.

- He's all right.

- Let's go get your treasures.

- No!

She's gone. Come on!

Matilda!

Miss Honey!

Move, you piece of junkyard fodder!

Shift, you filthy...

My house!

Oh, my!

- My father's portrait was there.

- The artist must have been brave.

Really brave.

We should go...

Father's chocolate box.

After supper, he'd take a chocolate

and cut it in half.

And he'd give me the bigger half.

When he died.

I couldn't even sneak one.

She'd take a chocolate and say:

Much too good for children!

Have one.

No. She'd notice.

- Where's Lissy Doll?

- Upstairs.

Matilda...

This is my room.

- That's my dad.

- What's his name?

Magnus. I called him King Magnus.

And he called me Bumblebee.

- I don't think he killed himself.

- Neither do I.

Is that Lissy Doll?

Wormwood!

You useless. used car salesman scum!

Come here. now!

I know what "caveat emptor" means,

but I'm gonna sue you!

I'll burn down your shop! I'll shove

that jalopy up your bazonga!

You're gonna look like roadkill!

You what?

Come on.

- Shouldn't we hide?

- Go out the kitchen door.

I'll distract her.

Who's in my house?

Come out and fight like a man!

Tally-ho!

Come on.

Over there.

Some rats are gonna die today.

Oh, my goodness.

Feel my heart. Weren't you

the most scared you've ever been?

She shouldn't treat people that way.

Somebody has to teach her a lesson.

When she leaves, we'll get the doll.

- What?

- Just kidding.

Come here.

Promise me you'll never

go back in that house again.

- I promise.

- Okay. Come on.

He came home with $2.000 cash

and he threw it up in the air.

We swam in it like we were on

"The Million Dollar Sticky"!

- Do you like that show?

- I love that show.

Now he has money in banks all over.

But does he give me a dime?

- Matilda. this is Bob and Bill.

- They're cops.

- They are Ace Power Boat salesmen.

- Babyface, I'm starved!

- Hi, Harry.

- Who are you?

What is this? A hot tub party?

- You're entertaining surfers?

- They're cops, Dad.

- Are you interested in time-share?

- Get out.

- Are you interested in time-share?

- Get out.

You don't let me talk to people!

I need to talk to someone

besides the kids.

A man is entitled to come home

and find dinner on the table!

- Dad. Yell at me, okay?

- Shut up and leave us alone!

- Yell at me again!

- I'll pound your miserable hide!

I want respect! You'll get

a tanning you won't forget!

My word is law!

No kid likes being yelled at.

But Harry's ranting and raving -

- gave Matilda the key to her power.

To unlock that power,

all she had to do was practice.

Start acting like a Wormwood!

What are you? Stupid?

There's something wrong with her.

If you're a Wormwood, it's time

you started acting like one!

That was one of my favorites,

played for all you pretty ones.

Playing music to make you smile...

Playing music to make you smile...

- Don't we need a search warrant?

- No. This guy's dirty.

We'll show this tape in court.

That box is full of stolen parts.

How about letting me

handle that camera for a while?

Do you know how to use it?

Do you know about the zoom?

- How to adjust the eye piece?

- I can handle it.

It's my turn.

- Your turn to drop it.

- I won't drop it.

You'll be in a lot of trouble.

The female minor.

- Shouldn't you be in school?

- I hope you have a search warrant.

If you don't, you could lose

your job or even go to prison.

Your father is going to prison.

Do you know where you'll end up?

- In an orphanage.

- We can make it a nice one.

The kind with food... and tiny

cockroaches. What do you say?

Your car is

about to run a stop sign.

She bought some time for her dad.

But now. Matilda had

bigger fish to fry. Much bigger.

- Hey, dipface. Where are you going?

- Out.

Have a carrot.

Chew your food!

Chew your food!

Having power isn't as important

as what you do with it.

And what Matilda had in mind

was nothing short of heroic.

Come on!

Lissy Doll, come on!

Please come here.

Leave me alone!

Magnus!

Miss Honey!

You'll never believe what I got you!

I also brought you this.

I ate mine last night.

I will be teaching your class today.

Miss Honey was getting nervous,

but Matilda had a plan.

- She is really raving mad.

- What did your father call you?

- Hummingbird?

- Bumblebee.

- She knows the doll is missing.

- And he called her Trunchbull?

- He called her Agatha.

- She called him Magnus, right?

Maybe I could put the doll back.

No. I can't do that.

Calm down.

It's gonna be okay. I promise.

- You promised you wouldn't go back.

- I was on the garage roof.

- I did it with my powers.

- All right. I need to think.

Powers?

I think I got them down.

Watch this.

And no more Miss Nice Girl.

Get inside, quickly! Run!

Get against that wall, quickly!

Water!

And hold the newt!

Join the ranks. Move!

I am here to teach you all a lesson.

Sometimes in life. horrible

and unexplainable things happen.

These things

are a test of character.

And I have character.

Form a line across the room!

Fill this gap!

I expect you're wondering

what I'm talking about.

A child came to my house.

I don't know how, when or why.

- May I?

- No, you may not.

But I know a child came.

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