The vitals:
7:00 ~ Doors
7:30 ~ Matilda

Matilda is, before anything else, a movie about how being smart and kind are super powers. This wasn’t present in original novel author Roald Dahl’s first draft, as he instead wrote his main character as a nasty prank-puller who helped her teacher with horse betting. Dahl later revised this conception, making Matilda a reader suffering under her neglectful parents’ treatment. This was, according to biographer Jeremy Treglown, the result of an American editor’s notes urging the author to make Matilda an innocent. It wouldn’t be until 1996 that another American once again improved upon Dahl’s Matilda, though by that time the old antisemite had been dead for at least six years. This was one Danny DeVito, born November 17, 1944 – a good 49 years before another short king entered the scene on the very same day, aka ME. DeVito wears many hats – none super-super glued, as far as I know – beyond director, playing blowhard patriarch Harry Wormwood alongside his at-the-time wife Rhea Perlman as toxically coiffed matriarch Zinnia. He also narrates this tale of a young girl whose isolation from her difficult family encourages both her intellectual pursuits and psychokinetic powers – both of which pit her against diabolical principal Trunchbull. 

~ James Scott

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