The Wormwoods are a not so nice family who live in a nice house in a nice neighborhood. The father Harry Wormwood is a sleazy car salesman who is under constant monitor by the FBI and the mother Zinnia spends all day every day at the Bingo Hall playing Bingo. The Wormwoods fail to realize their mistake of a daughter Matilda is a child prodigy from the day she was born. At her request, her father reluctantly sends her to school at Crunchem Hall, a ratty looking school headed by Agatha Trunchbull, an ex-Olympic athlete and gold medal winner in the hammer throw who despises children, and gets sheer enjoyment out of torturing them in school. Matilda soon learns her first-grade teacher Miss Honey is the nicest person in her life, and actually respects her, but she soon learns Miss Honey has a dark past, and only she can be the one to come to her level and help her fix her life, with the help of strangely developed psychic powers. starring Danny DeVito [he directed it], Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris, and Mara Wilson as the titular "Matilda". Screenplay by/Co-Producers: Nicholas Kazan & Robin Swicord; Based on the 1988 Jonathan Cape book by Roald Dahl. Produced by DeVito, Michael Shambers, Stacey Sher and Liccy Dahl; Executive Producers: Michael Peyser and Martin Bergman. Music by David Newman. a Jersey Films production for TriStar Pictures. "for Suzie Wilson".