Matilda is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and Lionel Stander.

A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use him as his stepping-stone into the big time by having him compete with a human pugilist.

Producer Al Ruddy explained that "we debated over using both a real kangaroo and an actor in costume and opted for the latter as cross-cutting proved too jarring for the viewer.

Critic Tom Allen wrote in The Village Voice that "Matilda is worked by a person in a fur suit and fixed mask.

That was bad judgment on my part.”[3] Half the budget was provided by Melvin Simon Productions.