My Girl

"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."

Nov 27 1991 PG 1h 42m
Comedy, Drama, Family

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...

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Plot

1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and life will never be the same again.

Written by

Laurice Elehwany

Directed by

Howard Zieff

Cast

Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Imagine Entertainment, Columbia Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 5 nominations total

Trailers
MY GIRL [1991] - Official Trailer (HD)
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# of Votes
92,575
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
56
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