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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.

1991 · PG · 1h 43m

Directed by Howard Zieff

7.4

TMDB audience score
2,392 votes, out of 10

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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

  • 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

  • Kristian Truelsen
    Charles

  • David Caprita
    Ray

  • Jody Wilson
    Mrs. Hunsaker

  • Linda Perri
    Betty

  • Nancy L. Chlumsky
    Jackie

  • Glenda Chism
    Thomas J.'s Mother