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My Girl

1991

Howard Zieff

Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky ...

6.3

22,117

Drama. Comedy 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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)"	POS
United States	Susan Wloszczyna USA Today	"Only the strong will escape without a tear."	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"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"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Hard to hate, but if you actually want to love it, you've got to force yourself"	NEU
United States	Jay Carr Boston Globe	"A pleasant surprise. It's sweet, offbeat and ultimately slight, but likable nevertheless for the emotional integrity it maintains"	POS
United States	Joe Brown The Washington Post	"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."	NEG
United Kingdom	Matt Mueller Empire	"A sweetly unassuming teen flick (...) the performances are appealing, particularly the endearing Chlumsky (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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