This week the movie will be the animated movie “Matilda” on June 21st.
Enjoy the Free Movies In The Park series Wednesdays at sundown at Town Center Park. Bring your lawn chairs, relax and enjoy the show!
The Plot:
Six-year-old genius Matilda Wormwood is neglected and mistreated by her used car salesman father Harry, her stay-at-home mother Zinnia, and her older brother Michael. Smart and independent, she finds solace in the fictional worlds of books at the public library.
When Matilda’s parents refuse to embrace her intellect or enroll her into school, she puts bleach in her father’s hair tonic and glues his hat to his head. After a restaurant trip goes wrong, Harry catches Matilda reading Moby-Dick, rips it up, and forces her to watch a game show on television. Matilda becomes increasingly enraged until the television explodes.
Harry sells a car to Miss Trunchbull, the tyrannical principal of Crunchem Hall Elementary School, in exchange for admitting Matilda as a student. Upon her first day, Matilda meets other students who warn her about Trunchbull’s abusive methods of discipline, which include throwing students out the window and locking them in “the chokey”, a small cramped closet resembling an iron maiden.
Matilda’s teacher, Miss Jennifer Honey, notices the ease with which Matilda answers middle school multiplication problems and requests Matilda be moved to a higher class, but Trunchbull refuses.
The Wormwoods also ignore and insult Miss Honey when she visits them to discuss Matilda’s potential to attend college early. Trunchbull has the whole school watch her force a boy to eat an entire enormous chocolate cake as punishment for stealing her piece of chocolate cake from the school kitchen.
Matilda leads the junior and senior students in cheering the boy to success, and Trunchbull gives them all five hours detention as a punishment. Matilda discovers her father is under surveillance by the FBI over his illegal dealings, but her parents refuse to believe her when she warns them.
After discovering the car Harry sold her was faulty, Trunchbull locks Matilda in the chokey as punishment. While she waits to be let out, her friend Lavender puts a newt in Trunchbull’s water jug. Trunchbull accuses Matilda, who, in anger at the injustice, telekinetically tips the glass over, splashing the newt onto Trunchbull.
Feeling sympathy for Matilda, Miss Honey invites her to her house for tea after school and lets her in on a secret: her mother died when she was two, and her father Magnus invited his wife’s stepsister, Trunchbull, to live with them and look after her, but Trunchbull abused her. Magnus died, apparently by suicide, three years later, supposedly leaving everything in his will to Trunchbull, who Miss Honey suspects murdered him. Matilda and Miss Honey sneak into Trunchbull’s house to retrieve some of Miss Honey’s belongings, but narrowly escape when Trunchbull unexpectedly returns early.
Matilda practices her telekinetic powers and thwarts the FBI agents to buy Harry time to come to his senses. She returns to Trunchbull’s house to retrieve a doll from Miss Honey’s childhood, but accidentally leaves behind her hair ribbon, making Trunchbull aware of her presence.
The next day, Matilda returns the doll to Miss Honey and reveals her powers to her. When Trunchbull visits the class to make Matilda confess, Matilda telekinetically writes a message on the blackboard, posing as the vengeful spirit of Magnus and demanding that Trunchbull give Miss Honey her house and her money back. Trunchbull attacks the students at random in a rage, but Matilda protects them and the student body, both junior and senior, throw food at her as runs out of the school for good. Miss Honey moves back into her house.
Harry, Zinnia, and Michael come to Miss Honey’s house to collect Matilda and flee to Guam to avoid the FBI. Matilda refuses to go, saying she would rather be adopted by Miss Honey. Her parents are initially reluctant but her mother apologizes for never understanding her only daughter.
Desperate to leave, the parents sign the adoption papers and Matilda lives happily with Miss Honey, who becomes the principal of Crunchem Hall.
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