My Girl

5.00
    My Girl
    1991

    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, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

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    Cast

    • Macaulay CulkinThomas J. Sennett
    • Anna ChlumskyVada Sultenfuss
    • Dan AykroydHarry Sultenfuss
    • Jamie Lee CurtisShelly DeVoto
    • Richard MasurPhil Sultenfuss
    • Griffin DunneMr. Jake Bixler
    • Ann NelsonGramoo Sultenfuss
    • Peter Michael GoetzDr. Welty
    • Jane HallarenNurse Randall
    • Anthony R. JonesArthur

    Recommendations

    • 88

      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. This is a movie that has its heart in the right place.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      It’s an introduction to adolescent viewers of some of life’s most painful events, even if those events aren’t always depicted in the most realistic ways. And therein lies My Girl’s effectiveness.
    • 60

      Washington Post

      Watching it, you can't quite figure out what the movie's audience is supposed to be. For parents and kids hoping for a Macaulay Culkin movie, a rude shock awaits. Also, the movie's themes may be too sophisticated for younger audiences; it deals, after all, with death and recovery. And yet, the treatment of these issues may be too pat for adults. 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.
    • 60

      Empire

      Despite being an entirely formulaic heartstring-tugger with some finger-gag­ging moments, the performances are appealing, particularly the endearing Chlumsky.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      My Girl has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), yet it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality.
    • 50

      Los Angeles Times

      The movie is twinkly and antiseptic so that when tragedy hits big in the final half hour, it seems coercive. It's like a pipsqueak Terms of Endearment.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      As directed by Howard Zieff, My Girl has a bizarrely light tone and an awkward pace, in part because it's hard for the director to keep track of the story's many half-developed subplots.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      While no masterpiece, My Girl is a fine example of compassionate and tasteful filmmaking which features a number of charming moments, most of which are provided by Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin, while Dan Aykroyd (in a mildly eccentric but subdued role reminiscent of his recent turn in Driving Miss Daisy) and Jamie Lee Curtis lend able support.

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