My Girl (film)

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My Girl
Image:My girl ver1.jpg Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Howard Zieff
Produced by	Brian Grazer Joseph M. Caracciolo David T. Friendly
Written by	Laurice Elehwany
Starring	Dan Aykroyd Jamie Lee Curtis Macaulay Culkin Anna Chlumsky
Music by	James Newton Howard
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	November 27, 1991 (USA)
Running time	102 min.
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 US (est.)
Followed by	My Girl 2
IMDb profile

My Girl is a 1991 coming-of-age dramatic comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky. It was written by Laurice Elehwany and directed by Howard Zieff. The film was originally rated PG-13 then later became PG before release.

A sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.

Contents 1 Tagline 2 Plot 3 Cast 4 Trivia 5 External links

Tagline

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.

Plot

Set in Madison, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1972, My Girl is a story of first love and loss.

Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is a precocious 11-year-old tomboy and a hypochondriac. Vada's father, Harry Sultenfuss (Dan Aykroyd), is an awkward widower who doesn't seem to understand his daughter, and as a result, constantly ignores her. His profession as a funeral director has led Vada to develop an obsession with death and disease.

Vada is also teased by other girls because her only and best friend, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), is a rather geeky, unpopular boy. Their summer adventures - from first kiss to last farewell - introduce Vada to the world of adolescence.

Vada's summer begins well. She befriends Shelley Devoto (Jamie Lee Curtis), the new make-up artist at her fathers funeral parlour, who provides her with some much needed guidance. She is also infatuated with her teacher, Mr Bixler, and steals some money from Shelley's trailer to attend a summer writing class that he is teaching.

But before long, things start to fall apart. Her father and Shelley start dating, Thomas dies from an allergic reaction to bee stings, and she finds out that Mr Bixler is engaged.

Her grief, however, manages to mend the rift between her and her father, and by the end of the movie, Vada has not only managed to deal with her pain, but overcome some of her previous issues.

Cast

• Harry Sultenfuss - Dan Aykroyd
• Shelly Devoto - Jamie Lee Curtis
• Thomas J. Sennett - Macaulay Culkin
• Vada Sultenfuss - Anna Chlumsky
• Phil Sultenfuss - Richard Masur

Trivia

• This film marked the first on-screen kiss for both Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky.
• Named after the 1965 Temptations song "My Girl"
• To capture summertime Pennsylvania in the midst of a winter production schedule, the film was shot in Orlando, Florida and its surrounding communities.
• The house used as the Sultenfuss' residence is actually a bed & breakfast inn in Bartow, Florida.
• Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky won an MTV Movie Award for "Best Kiss" and were nominated for "Best On-Screen Duo" in 1992. Anna Chlumsky was also nominated in the "Best Breakthrough Performance" category.
• Thomas J's death is referenced in episode 109, titled The Heights of The OC. After crying during an intense conversation with ex-girlfriend Marissa, Luke later tells her that he hasn't cried like that 'since Macaulay Culkin died in My Girl'.
• The working title for this film was "Born Jaundiced".

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