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.

My Girl — Plot

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...

• Release date
• November 21, 1991
• Runtime
• 103 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Howard Zieff

My Girl — Cast

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