PREVIEW: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

Alisha Weir (Don’t Leave Home), Lashana Lynch (No Time to Die), Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), Stephen Graham (Boiling Point), Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Sindhu Vee (Say My Name), Lauren Alexandra (Death on the Nile), Carl Spencer (Rocketman), Katherine Kingsley (Genius)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Matthew Warchus (Pride), director; Dennis Kelly (Black Sea), writer; Tim Bevan (Love Actually), Eric Fellner (The Theory of Everything), Jon Finn (Billy Elliot) and Luke Kelly (The Witches), producers; Tim Minchin (film debut) and Christopher Nightingale (Pride), composers; Tat Radcliffe (’71), cinematographer; Melanie Ann Oliver (Les Misérables), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Matilda Wormwood (Weir) is a young girl with an extraordinary imagination and intelligence, which her cruel and neglectful parents (Graham and Riseborough) do not care for. They soon send her to Crunchem Hall, a school run by the feared headmistress Miss Trunchbull (Thompson), who subjects her students to torturous and downright evil punishments. Matilda, with the help of kindly teacher Miss Honey (Lynch), sets out to right the wrongs caused by Trunchbull, and in the process discovers some amazing new powers…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Tim Minchin’s acclaimed musical adaptation of the equally beloved Roald Dahl story is brought to the big screen in rousing and upbeat fashion, resulting in not just one of the year’s best family films but one of the year’s best films in general.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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