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My Girl

6.3

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Original title: My Girl
Year: 1991
Running time: 102 min.
Country: United States
Director: Howard Zieff
Screenwriter: Laurice Elehwany
Music: James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Paul Elliott
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Masur, Griffin Dunne, Ann Nelson, Jane Hallaren, Tom Villard, Kristian Truelsen, Peter Michael Goetz, Robert V. Girolami, Kurt Smildsin, Edgar Allan Poe II, Jody Wilson, David Caprita, Ray Buktenica, Lara SteinickSee 5 More
Producer: Brian Grazer, Imagine Entertainment. Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Drama. Comedy | 1970s. Friendship. Family-friendly. Comedy-Drama
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, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlor, and begins to fall in love with her, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.

Awards: 1991: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nom. for Most Promising Actress (Chlumsky)

Critics' reviews

"The beauty in this film is in its directness. There are some obligatory scenes. But there are also some very original and touching ones (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Only the strong will escape without a tear."

Susan Wloszczyna: USA Today
"It's an entertaining, often winning, movie, but you can't help but feel that the filmmakers never settled on what sort of movie they wanted to make"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"Hard to hate, but if you actually want to love it, you've got to force yourself"

Mick LaSalle: SFGATE
"A pleasant surprise. It's sweet, offbeat and ultimately slight, but likable nevertheless for the emotional integrity it maintains"

Jay Carr: Boston Globe
"My Girl may well have been intended as a tender way for parents to explain difficult subjects to their kids, but this botch of a movie explains nothing."

Joe Brown: The Washington Post
"A sweetly unassuming teen flick (...) the performances are appealing, particularly the endearing Chlumsky (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Matt Mueller: Empire

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