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Right from birth, Matilda Wormwood different from the rest of her family. Even as a baby, she showed remarkable intelligence by writing her name in spinach she had spilled on the kitchen counter. Her parents and older brother, however, are shown to be incredibly cruel and morally-corrupt people: Her father, Harry, sells used cars for unfair prices while her mother, Zinnia, is unemployed and spends her days playing bingo. Matilda loves reading from an early age, which her father disapproves of, and he punishes her by sending her to her room simply for being smart. Matilda takes her revenge by pouring her father's hair oil down the sink, and replacing it with peroxide, turning his hair blonde. Later, she puts glue in his hat, so it sticks to his head.

Matilda is enrolled at Crunchem Hall where children are terrorized by the principal, Miss Agatha Trunchbull, an ex-Olympic champion. Matilda learns from another girl, Hortensia, that the Trunchbull's acts of terrorism include throwing a boy out the window for eating two M&M's during class, and locking kids in the chokey, which is known as a Iron Maiden, described by Hortensia, is "a tall narrow hole in the wall behind a door"; the kids are forced to stand in a drippy pipe with jagged edges, and the walls have broken glass and nails sticking out. Miss Trunchbull then proceeds to throw a young girl over a fence by her pigtails, but she lands safely on the other side. To Matilda's relief, her teacher, Miss Jennifer Honey, is quite the opposite; a kind and caring woman with a dark secret that will come to light over time. On her first day, Matilda displays her remarkable intelligence by getting a big product right (13 x 379 = 4,927). Miss Honey is amazed by Matilda's knowledge, but when she suggests to Miss Trunchbull that Matilda should be moved into an older class, Miss Trunchbull refuses. Later, when Miss Honey visits the Wormwoods, she is dismayed by Harry and Zinnia's lack of respect for education.

One day, Miss Trunchbull discovers that the car Matilda's father sold her is a useless hunk of junk, and she takes her anger out on Matilda by locking her in the chokey. When Miss Honey notices Matilda's desk empty, she asks Matilda's friend, Lavender, where she is. Lavender makes a choking gesture, and Miss Honey goes to Miss Trunchbull's office and lets Matilda out. Later, Miss Honey takes Matilda to her place. On the way, they pass Miss Trunchbull's home, and Matilda notices a swing in the front yard. Miss Honey then starts to tell her a story of a young girl who lost both her parents by the time she was five. In between the two tragedies, the father invited the mother's step-sister to come live with them. When Miss Honey tells her the girls aunt was a mean person, Matilda realizes Miss Honey is talking about Miss Trunchbull. The girls father died soon afterwards, a suspected suicide. Miss Honey's story did have a happy ending as the girl rented a small cottage and finally escaped from her tyrannical aunt. Matilda recognizes Miss Honey's house as the cottage from her story, and realizes that the girl in Miss Honey's story is Miss Honey herself, and Miss Honey's dark secret is now out: She is Miss Trunchbull's niece.

Inside, Miss Honey explains she was forced to leave all her dearest possessions behind when she left her aunt's home, including a doll her mother gave her. Later, on the way back, they watch Miss Trunchbull loading a shot put, hammer throw, and a javelin into the trunk of her car. They also watch her panic as a black cat advances towards her. Matilda is surprised that Miss Trunchbull is afraid of a cat, but Miss Honey tells Matilda her aunt is very superstitious, so only black ones scare her. While Miss Trunchbull is gone, they sneak into the house. Above the fireplace, where a portrait of Miss Honey's father had once hung was a portrait of Miss Trunchbull holding a javelin. Miss Honey next tells Matilda that her father used to cut a chocolate in half, and he would always give her the bigger half, but after he died, Miss Trunchbull would count them so she could not sneak one. They then head upstairs to Miss Honey's room where they find the portrait of Miss Honey's father and Miss Honey's doll. As Miss Honey goes to grab it, the Trunchbull's voice rings out; she is threatening Matilda's father with a lawsuit over the phone. She suddenly notices the lid on the chocolate box is not on straight, and she goes on the rampage to find the intruders. Matilda and Miss Honey barely manage to get away from the raging Trunchbull.

Around this time, Matilda learns that she has magical powers, a gift she can use to turn the tables on all the wicked grown-ups in her life - earlier in the movie, she accidentally blew up a television that her father had stolen, and caused a glass of water containing a newt to tip over, and the newt crawled over Miss Trunchbull, and she did both by using her mind. Once she learns to control her powers, Matilda decides to use them to teach Miss Trunchbull a lesson.

On a windy night, Matilda goes to Miss Trunchbull's house where she uses her powers to get Miss Honey's doll, then takes two chocolates from the chocolate box before eating one. Matilda then makes the power cables shake, causing the lights to flicker, and she makes the windows fly open. She then rips Miss Trunchbull's portrait off the wall, and throws it in the fire, replacing it with that of Miss Honey's father before moving the hands of Miss Trunchbull's clock to twelve o'clock. Now convinced her house is haunted, a terrified Miss Trunchbull runs out of the house and to her car.

At school the next day, Matilda gives Miss Honey her doll and the other chocolate. Miss Trunchbull arrives, and tells Miss Honey she will be teaching her class. However, Matilda concocts a plan, and after showing Miss Honey her powers, she says "No more Miss Nice Girl". Coming in, Miss Trunchbull holds up Matilda's red hair ribbon which Matilda lost the night before, then throws it to the floor and spits. Miss Honey tries to defend Matilda, but ends up revealing her secret to the whole class by calling Miss Trunchbull "Aunt Trunchbull". Matilda then puts her plan into action; using her powers to levitate a piece of chalk, she writes a ghostly message supposedly from Miss Honey's father on the blackboard, saying: "Agatha. This is Magnus. Give my little bumblebee her house and her money. Then get out of town. If you don't, I will get you like you got me. That is a promise!" Matilda then makes two erasers attack Miss Trunchbull. Once she recovers, she throws a boy out the window, but Matilda causes him to fly back in, and she sends Miss Trunchbull crashing into a globe which Matilda magically spins around before Miss Trunchbull is sent flying off into the corner. She next charges towards Lavender, but she crashes through the door after Matilda raises her off the floor. The rest of the children in the school grab their lunch boxes, and pelt Miss Trunchbull with the contents, chasing her out of the school. She quickly gets in her car and drives off, and is never heard from again.

The Wormwoods are forced to flee the country when the law catches onto Harry's dodgy dealings, but allow Matilda to stay with Miss Honey - who has now moved back into her father's house - after signing adoption papers that Matilda has drafted, the first decent thing Harry and Zinnia had ever done for their daughter, and Miss Honey is made principal of Crunchem Hall (which later has to add an upper school for its newfound popularity).