Matilda the Musical
Movie • 2022 • Comedy
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Matilda is neglected
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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Trunchbull spies on the children’s conversations with surveillance.
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A man is killed by a woman with whom he shares a home and parental responsibilities. This is not shown onscreen but is said to have happened outside of the home
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Mrs. Trunchbill gaslights Ms. Honey.
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Matilda is abused by her parents and mrs trunchbull abuses the children
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Addiction
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Animal
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Are animals abused?
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McKayla
A newt is flung at a (bad) person and crawls inside their collar which makes the person panic, but the newt is OK at the end. A circus lion is seen, but not harmed or forced to perform.
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Are there snakes?
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McKayla
There is a newt, which is wet and kind of slithery.
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Are there bugs?
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A newt in mrs trunchbulls drink during the physical education scene
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Assault
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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not beaten but there is slight bullying
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Is someone restrained?
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The chokey
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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An anxious child has a panic episode looking at a math problem they can’t solve, but it compassionately comforted until calm.
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Is someone buried alive?
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passerby
A child is voluntarily covered in coats and gets up just fine a few minutes after
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Does someone break a bone?
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Matilda says the acrobat breaks every bone in her body except the ones in her little fingers. We do see the acrobat again, but she has no visible injuries even though we are assured they are extensive
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Does someone have a seizure?
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passerby
A fake narcolepsy episode is described clinically but this is neither a seizure nor real
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Is someone tortured?
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The chokey
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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A child is said to be thrown down into a basement, we only see them sprawled at the bottom of the stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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No one immediately dies from a fall, but the acrobat is said to have broken so many bones in a fall that she dies later when giving birth
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Kids are regularly endangered in a jovial and cartoonish tone for the plot but none of them die.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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yes, and the stakes are appropriately high for children. non lethal threats
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Mrs honeys parents die
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Not a toy but Matilda adores reading books and her father rips it up
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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One villain thinks there is a ghost because of a scene made to look like scary haunting but the audience knows it is actually the good guys playing a trick
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Is someone possessed?
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A piece of chalk/some chains take the form of a “ghost” to speak beyond the grace, but are actually controlled by a child.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Nobody actually vomits but there is speaking of it when Bruce eats the cake and also just before that Bruce burps for quite a long time it defenitley startled me but there is no vomiting
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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No but one character mentions she wants children to be so afraid they wet themselves when they see her
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Does someone spit?
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Lots of farts and burps.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Movie takes place in the 80s
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Colorful and exaggerated hospital in opening scene shows maternity wing. Later a brief shot in Matilda’s story shows a woman in a more realistic looking hospital
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Mental Health
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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A violent character is regularly called “mad” (as in the brit way) by others, whether she is genuinely psychotic (as in disconnected from reality) is up to you.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Matilda gets abused and she has a lot of symptoms of autism yet it isn’t mentioned in the film
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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McKayla
Chair screeches are common.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Matilda often gets anxious around her parents and a lot of the children are anxious and scared of mrs trunchbull
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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A child is said to have been bullied for being fat, and the actor playing the child is wearing a fat suit.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The chokey
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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A boy (whose actor wears a fat suit) steals cake that belonged to an abuser and is forced to consume an absurd amount of cake as punishment. No explicit eating disorder
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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At the end, an adult is briefly scared to go into a building where she was abused but quickly gets through it without having any visible flashbacks or specific PTSD symptoms
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Noxious
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No but there is a lot of spinning the camera during Quiet
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Does a baby cry?
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Lots of children cry
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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It’s an adaption of a musical stage play, so there are musical sequences which seem to be performed “at” the camera but the characters do not address the audience verbally.
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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The opening number contains a comical amount of babies
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Does a pregnant person die?
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In childbirth, and the baby lives. Not shown onscreen, but described. It is because she was forced to perform a dangerous stunt while pregnant. SPOILERS this happens during a story Matilda is telling but is later revealed to have really happened
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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“idiot”, “big stupid”, a stutter is mocked, “a carnival freak” “mad”
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Not at all, although the word ‘knickers’ can sound similar, especially if you’re American and not familiar with that word
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the other comment more similarly matches anti-Roma prejudice, not antisemitism. It is a strange decision although not hatefully portrayed. This character is a positive figure in Matilda’s life.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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The role historically played by a man in drag is played by a woman here, so no. But the character is dressed with body prosthetics to look exactly the same (big, muscular) and is still mocking masculine women
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TheCassandraComplex
Matilda’s father calls her “boy” constantly, she has to correct him every time.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Emily.r.carr
About Bruce
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Does the black guy die first?
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Miss Honey's mum and dad are the only characters to die and they are both black
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Race
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Relationships
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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McKayla
A father cries when he realizes his daughter was abused, and this is portrayed as love, not made fun of.
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Sickness
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Social
Are there fat suits?
30 supporters
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Korribory
For Bruce and the Trunchbull
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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TheCassandraComplex
The story of Ms. Honey’s parents has a sad ending but the film has a happy ending.
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Vehicular
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Violence
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Is there gun violence?
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Not specifically guns, but adults must run from mafia-connected people who plan to harm them.
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