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The film stars [[Mara Wilson]] (''[[Miracle On 34th Street]]'', ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire (Film)|Mrs. Doubtfire]]'') in the lead and a frighteningly accurate Trunchbull in the form of Pam Ferris.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Matilda's parents verbally berate her and neglect her every need. Later in the film, it's revealed that {{spoiler|Miss Honey was raised by The Trunchbull, who wasn't any less abusive to her than she is with the students}}. In the movie, Matilda's parents have no problem leaving her at home, and they left her in the car when they got home from the hospital after driving extremely recklessly with her unrestrained in the back seat.
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** Ms. Wormwood is chatting on the phone with an unseen friend of hers.
{{quote| '''Ms. Wormwood''':...If you ''get yours waxed'', it'll change your life, too!}}
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* [[Happily Ever After]]: Well, Matilda and Miss Honey anyway.
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* [[Hot Teacher]]: Miss Honey.
* [[How Do I Shot Web]]: Matilda undergoes this. The movie uses a [[Montage]].
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: In the movie, Mr. Wormwood is shorter than Mrs. Wormwood, but he's now the pudgy one, and she the wiry one. Partly because they're played by the director, Danny DeVito, and his actual wife, Rhea Perlman.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: The movie significantly pads the scene of Miss Trunchbull's downfall. {{spoiler|After her first being spooked by Matilda pretending to be the ghost of Magnus (with all the children in unison reading the chalkboard message), she is beaten up by chalk-covered erasers, knocked onto a globe by the same student she tried to throw out the window, and in the end is chased out of the school and into the parking lot by the entire school, driving away as they pelt her and her car with food from their lunchboxes.}}
* [[Impairment Shot]]: During Miss Trunchbull's [[Humiliation Conga]], there's a shot of her seeing double {{spoiler|from dizziness after being spun on the globe}}.
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