Matilda / My Girl / My Girl 2 / Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer / Am DVD

Collection of family comedies. In 'Matilda' (1996) Mara Wilson stars as the exceptionally gifted and intelligent Matilda who is ignored by her unappreciative parents Harry (Danny DeVito) and Zinnia Wormwood (Rhea Perlman). A keen reader, her dearest wish is to be sent to school, but the establishment Harry selects is Crunchemhall, run by the terrifying Miss Trunchball (Pam Ferris). Her cruelty to her pupils causes Matilda to vow revenge, and her newly discovered telekinetic powers give her the chance to do so. In 'My Girl' (1991) Vada (Anna Chlumsky), an eleven-year-old hypochondriac, spends the summer with her best friend Thomas (Macaulay Culkin). She relies on him when her undertaker father (Dan Aykroyd) starts dating a make-up artist (Jamie Lee Curtis), feeling that her parental relationship is now under threat. In 'My Girl 2' (1994), Vada is now 13-years-old and living in Pennsylvania. For a school project she travels to stay with her Uncle Phil (Richard Masur) in Los Angeles, where she intends to trace her late mother's history. Teaming up with the streetwise tearaway Nick (Austin O'Brien), her enquiries lead to a greater understanding of her mother and initiate Vada on a journey of self-discovery. In 'Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer' (2011), pessimistic third-grader Judy Moody (Jordana Beatty) decides to enliven her summer holidays by introducing a 'thrill points' system for exciting and daring things, only to find that her friends - Rocky (Garrett Ryan), Amy (Taylar Hender) and Frank (Preston Bailey) - all have far more exotic plans for the summer than she does. To make matters worse, her parents have jetted off to California leaving the dreaded Aunt Opal (Heather Graham) to look after her and her ultra-annoying little brother, Stink (Paris Mosteller). Finally, 'American Girl - Shooting for the Stars' (2012) is an inspirational family drama following a young girl's dreams of...