Matilda on screen

Roald Dahl's story has reached film as a non-musical comedy and as a screen version of the stage musical, each giving Matilda a different route to rebellion.

This map covers the related screen works currently supported by PlotGeeks, rather than every adaptation ever made.

1. Source book | 1988MatildaView book explainer →
2. 1996 | Feature filmMatildaAdapted from | Danny DeVito

   The film relocates the story to the United States and expands Matilda's telekinesis into a larger comic confrontation with Trunchbull.

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3. 2022 | Feature filmRoald Dahl's Matilda the MusicalAdapted from | Matthew Warchus

   The second feature reaches the novel through the stage musical, using songs and Matilda's invented escapologist story to enlarge her inner life.