Matilda (film)/Trivia
- Hey, It's That Guy!: In the movie, one of the investigators assigned to go after Matilda's father is Pee-Wee Herman[1] while the second one is Bob, Joker's number one guy.
- And Matilda's dad is Frank Reynolds, another sleazy character who is an absolute Jerkass to his children.
- Bruce Bogtrotter, the cake eater, can be seen two years later in The Wedding Singer grabbing Drew Barrymore's butt.
- Miss Honey is the recently widowed wife of Lane Pryce in Mad Men
- Shout-Out:
- To other Roald Dahl works; Matilda accidentally refers to Charles Dickens as "Dahl's Chickens" at first, and later she shares with Miss Honey that "the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of 550 times a minute".
- There's also a direct shout-out to Dahl's family in Miss Honey's beloved "Liccy Doll" (pronounced "lissy"). One of the producers of the film is author Roald Dahl's widow, Liccy Dahl.
- It's very hard not to see the shot of Trunchbull snorting against the window as a direct reference to the raptor doing the same thing in the then-recent Jurassic Park movie.
- In the end of the movie, the Wormwoods, after giving up Matilda to be adopted by Ms. Honey, make their getaway to Guam. In another movie produced by Danny DeVito and staring him and his wife, Rhea Pearlman, The Ratings Game, it has the wayward ship (with the Nielsen Ratings families on board) traveling to Guam. It also shows the Wormwoods' stupidity since Guam is a U.S. Territory. Needless to say, even if they made it to Guam, the Law still catches up to them.
- Back to Matilda (film)
- ↑ Paul Reubens' famous obnoxious man-child persona