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My Girl (1991)

My Girl (1991)

Drama Comedy

When your Dad's an undertaker, your Mom's in heaven, and your Grandma's got a screw loose...it's good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy.

Release Date: 1991, November 27
Directors: Howard Zieff
Countries: United States of America
Production: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Ray Buktenica, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Perri, Dan Aykroyd, Richard Masur, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Jody Wilson, Ann Nelson, Bill Cordell, Anthony Giaimo, Griffin Dunne

Overview:

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

Keywords:

friendship death father daughter relationship death in childbirth 1970s melancholy neighbor remarriage beehive writing workshop makeup artist camper cosmetologist tuba funeral parlor childhood crush