My Girl

My Girl

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.

PG 1991 · 103 min · ★ 7.4 (2K) · Comedy, Drama

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...

Directed by Howard Zieff · Written by Laurice Elehwany

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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
Tom Villard Justin
Lara Steinick Ronda

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