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My Girl
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...
1991 · Directed by Howard Zieff · 103 min · Comedy · Drama · 16 frames
Tagline
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.
Crew
- Screenplay: Laurice Elehwany
- Cinematography: Paul Elliott
- Edited by: Wendy Greene Bricmont
- Music: James Newton Howard
- Production design: Joseph T. Garrity
- Produced by: Brian Grazer
Cast
- Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss
- Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett
- Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto
- Richard Masur as Phil Sultenfuss
- Griffin Dunne as Mr. Jake Bixler
- Ann Nelson as Gramoo Sultenfuss
- Peter Michael Goetz as Dr. Welty
- Jane Hallaren as Nurse Randall
- Anthony R. Jones as Arthur
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
- Budget: $17,000,000
- Box office: $59,490,000
- Themes: friendship, 1970s, melancholy, beehive, remarriage, neighbor, death, writing workshop, makeup artist, camper
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