This film adaptation of a Roald Dahl work tells the story of Matilda Wormwood, a gifted girl forced to put up with a crude, distant father named Harry and mother named Zinnia. Worse, Miss Agatha Trunchbull, the evil headmistress at her school, is a terrifyingly strict bully. However, when she realizes that she has the power of telekinesis, she begins to defend her friends from Miss Trunchbull's wrath and fight back against Harry and Zinnia.—Kelli Barron