
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Matilda Unfortunately for Matilda her father Harry (Danny De Vito) is a used car salesman who bamboozles innocent customers & her mother Zinnia (Rhea Perlman) lives for bingo & soap operas Far from noticing what a special child Matilda is they barely notice her at all! They bundle Matilda off to Cruncham Hall a bleak school where students cower before the whip hand & fist of a hulking monster headmistress Miss Trunchball (Pam Ferris) But amid Crunchem&s darkness Matilda discovers remarkable skills
- including a very special talent that allows her to turn the table on the wicked grown ups in her world! Madeline Madeline & her eleven friends live at school run by Miss Clavel (Frances Mc Dormand) in an old house in Paris The smallest of the girls Madeline is also the most adventurous! She loses her appendix but gains an awesome scare falls into the River Seine only to be rescued by a dog called Genevieve & matches wits with Pepito the devilish son of a Spanish Ambassador who moves in next door However when stuffy Lord Covington puts the future of the school in jeopardy it&s up to Madeline & her friends to save the day!