My Girl
1991 Directed by Howard Zieff
Synopsis
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.
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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I hate bees.
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I must have seen My Girl at least 20 times in my lifetime but I cannot believe I used to watch it as a bedtime movie, and not be an emotional wreck by the time the end credits came round. This film, man. Seriously.
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Pretty adorable, even for me. And gosh, Macaulay Culkin used to be so... cute? Before he got into drugs.
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soppy little sunday film which produced a tear or two at the end from an old git like me.lovely little performances from the young leads.
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Now on my very small list of films that can hit you. Simple and true life is explain in one story.
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A lovely film about the different faces of life and death, love and heartbreak, and friends and family. It's well-rounded, with a great premise, and an adorable lead. Young Anna Chlumsky proves her worth as she heads up the hefty lead role. Vada Sultenfuss goes through quite a bit in this film, and Anna is up to par in expressing those emotions in the child-like manner that speaks to all audiences. Both her and Macauley steal the show away from the more boring, awkward moments with Curtis and Aykroyd. It's a surface look at a lot of very involved issues, but the innocence of this movie helps to push the story in the right direction without becoming too preachy or sappy.
I can also totally relate to the whole your-teacher-is-a-total-babe-and-he's-way-too-old-for-you, which I thought was a great throw-in.
Who doesn't hate bees though?
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One of my childhood favorites. Really charming, good performances, strange humor--but I like strange humor.
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I must have seen My Girl at least 20 times in my lifetime but I cannot believe I used to watch it as a bedtime movie, and not be an emotional wreck by the time the end credits came round. This film, man. Seriously.
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I hate bees.
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Guilty pleasure...Την έχω δει πιστεύω τουλάχιστον 30 φορές και θα την ξαναδώ όταν την βάλει πάλι στο μέγκα :P Ο λόγος που από μικρός μίσησα τις μέλισσες..
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hate bees.
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one of my favourite movies. the way those kids play is just admirable. and it must have been the first movie that made me cry..