FREE: VHS VIDEO "MATILDA" w DANNY DeVITO, RHEA PERLMAN

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Product Details

Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris
Directors: Danny DeVito
Writers: Nicholas Kazan, Roald Dahl, Robin Swicord
Producers: Danny DeVito, Joshua Levinson, Liccy Dahl, Martin Bregman
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Live, NTSC
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Release Date: June 25, 2002
Run Time: 102 minutes
ASIN: 0800196767

Editorial Reviews

Danny DeVito's adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for children is mostly just fine, helped along quite a bit by the charming performance of Mara Wilson (Mrs. Doubtfire) as young Matilda, a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid, self-involved parents (DeVito and Rhea Perlman). Ignored at home, Matilda escapes into a world of reading, exercising her mind so much she develops telekinetic powers. Good thing, too: sent off to a school headed by a cruel principal, Matilda needs all the help she can get. DeVito takes a highly stylized approach that is sometimes reminiscent of Barry Sonnenfeld (director of Get Shorty, a DeVito production), and his judgment is not the best in some matters, such as letting the comic-scary sequences involving the principal go on too long. But much of the film is delightful and funny.