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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 12, 1998
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Jamie Lee Curtis & Dan Aykroyd | |
Performer: | Griffin Dunne, Richard Masur, Ann Nelson, Peter Michael Goetz & Tom Villard | |
Directed by | Howard Zieff | |
Edited by | Wendy Greene Bricmont | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard | |
Produced by | Brian Grazer | |
Director of Photography: | Paul Elliott | |
Executive Production by | David T. Friendly & Joseph M. Caracciolo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The ultimate tearjerker. Proof positive that Mac still has what it takes for a comeback!
Juicy Cerebellum
...[Culkin is] cute and sympathetic... -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1/5 --
Dreadful coming of age movie about kids and death. Kudos for the effort, but it's just depressing.
About.com
My Girl is an exercise in mawkish sentiment, an exploitation picture for the whole family.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Coming of age tale tackles death; for older kids.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3.5/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Syrupy sweet, but just this side of watchable.
eFilmCritic.com
Product Description:
Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is an eleven year old girl in a small Pennsylvania town in the early 1970s, at the beginning of life even as she lives with the constant reminder of death; her father (Dan Ackroyd) is a mortician who runs his business out of the family home, and her mother died during childbirth complications. The father and daughter also live with Vada's grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimers and whose only vocalizations are belted-out showtunes from her youth. This life story, paired with Ada's precocious and imaginative mind, makes for some highly entertaining and eminently human eccentricities; a hypochondriac, Vada is a regular patron of her family doctor, constantly convinced that she is suffering from some obscure and fatal illness. Her best friend is Thomas J. (Mackaulay Culkin), a wide-eyed naif to whom she tells all her thoughts, fears, and dreams. These include her romantic interest in her English teacher (Griffin Dunne), and her reservations regarding Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), her father's newly-employed makeup artist and love interest. Vada's world is eventually turned upside down when tragedy strikes, and she is forced to do some growing up along the way.
Director Howard Zieff has delivered a timeless coming-of-age that endures due to the strength of its characters and the quirky humanity of the story. Anna Chlumsky exhibits a vast emotional range and delivers a stunning performance, while Culkin seems natural in his role of observer that is worlds away from his character in HOME ALONE. The film treats the loss of innocence and the pain Vada goes through with respect and depth, and ultimately creates a moving portrait of a family's growth together as they learn to recognize and accept the pain and beauty of life.
Director Howard Zieff has delivered a timeless coming-of-age that endures due to the strength of its characters and the quirky humanity of the story. Anna Chlumsky exhibits a vast emotional range and delivers a stunning performance, while Culkin seems natural in his role of observer that is worlds away from his character in HOME ALONE. The film treats the loss of innocence and the pain Vada goes through with respect and depth, and ultimately creates a moving portrait of a family's growth together as they learn to recognize and accept the pain and beauty of life.
Keywords:
Friends
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Coming Of Age
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Children
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Love Story
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Illness
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Young Love
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Bucolic
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Seventies
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