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My Girl

19911h 43mComedy · Drama
directed by Howard Zieff

“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.”

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7.4 / 10
2,307 votes
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6.9 / 10
96,089 votes
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56 / 100
Rotten Tomatoes
57%

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Synopsis

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...

Cast

Anna Chlumsky·Vada Sultenfuss
Macaulay Culkin·Thomas J. Sennett
Dan Aykroyd·Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis·Shelly DeVoto
Richard Masur·Phil Sultenfuss
Griffin Dunne·Mr. Jake Bixler
Ann Nelson·Gramoo Sultenfuss
Peter Michael Goetz·Dr. Welty
Jane Hallaren·Nurse Randall
Anthony R. Jones·Arthur