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My Girl is a 1991 coming-of-age dramatic comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky. It was written by Laurice Elehwany and directed by Howard Zieff. A sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.
Plot Set in Madison, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1972, My Girl is a story of first love and loss. Vada Sultenfuss (Chlumsky) is a precocious 11-year-old tomboy and a hypochondriac. Vada's father, Harry Sultenfuss (Aykroyd), is an awkward widower who doesn't seem to understand his daughter, and as a result, constantly ignores her. His profession as a funeral director has led Vada to develop an obsession with death and disease. Vada is also teased by other girls because her best friend, Thomas J Sennett (Culkin), is a boy. Their summer adventures - from first kiss to last farewell - introduce Vada to the world of adolescence. Vada's summer begins well. She befriends Shelley Devoto (Curtis), the new make-up artist at her fathers funeral parlour, who provides her with some much needed guidance. She is also infatuated with her teacher, Mr Bixler, and steals some money from Shelley's trailer to attend a summer writing class that he is teaching. But before long, things start to fall apart. Her father and Shelley start dating, she finds out that Mr Bixler is engaged and then she loses her best friend. Her grief, however, manages to mend the rift between her and her father, and by the end of the movie, Vada has not only managed to deal with her pain, but overcome some of her previous issues. Cast Trivia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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