Matilda is a brilliant & sensitive child but her parents think of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old she has read Dickens & Hemingway & still her parents think of her as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Her platinum-haired mother & car salesman father are no match for her sharp genius & neither is the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull. & then the child prodigy discovers she has an extraordinary psychic power that can save her school & especially the lovely kindergarten teacher Miss Honey.