AWARD winning stage musical Matilda finally gets the big screen treatment featuring a host of stars including Dame Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham and Bond girl Lashana Lynch.
Director Matthew Warchus reunites with composer and lyricist Tim Minchin and scriptwriter Dennis Kelly for a swash boggling, phizz-whizzing screen adaptation of their West End hit, that retains the acidic tang of Roald Dahl's beloved 1988 children's novel and expresses the loss and reclamation of childhood innocence in barnstorming song and dance numbers.
Bookish wunderkind Matilda (Alisha Weir) has the misfortune to be raised by garish used car salesman Mr Wormwood (Graham) and his monstrous wife (Andrea Riseborough).
The precocious youngster escapes into fantastical worlds on the shelves of a mobile library run by Mrs Phelps (Sindhu Vee).
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