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Matilda - in which a little girl outsmarts everyone and is a telekinetic genius. So, this is based on the book by Roald Dahl, which I loved growing up. So, I knew everything that was gonna happen in the movie. It was a decent adaptation, and Mara Wilson was cute.Danny DeVito directed and starred and narrated the movie, so I guess he liked the book. So, the plot is that Matilda has a terrible family who discourages learning and reading and only watches TV and eats TV dinners. Matilda teaches herself to read at a very young age, because she is a genius. Her family is mean so she pranks them by dying her father's hair, and then one day she goes to a school with a monster Headmistress named Trenchbull, who has all sorts of tortures she does to children, and Matilda has a sweet kindergarten teacher named Miss Honey. Miss Honey is the only one who sees Matilda as the genius she is, and gives her special assignments to advance her. The twist is that Matilda has so much extra brain power that she develops telekinesis. In the end, she uses this telekinesis to defeat the tyranny of the Trenchbull and escape her jerk family and go live in a cottage with Miss Honey. In the end, she moves up several grades and loses her powers, but her life is happy now, so that's much better for her. In the movie, she didn't lose her powers, but I guess that's fine.

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