My Girl movie storyline. 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, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlor, and begins to fall in love with her, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.
My Girl is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff and written by Laurice Elehwany. The film, starring Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut, depicts the coming-of-age of a young girl who faces many different emotional highs and lows. The film also stars Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. A book based on the script was written by Patricia Hermes in 1991. The film’s sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.
The soundtrack of the film contains several 1960s and 1970s pop hits in addition to the title song (by The Temptations), including “Wedding Bell Blues” (The 5th Dimension), “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes), “Bad Moon Rising” (Creedence Clearwater Revival), “Good Lovin'” (The Rascals), and “Saturday in the Park” (Chicago). When Vada gets upset, she plugs her ears and sings “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”, the Manfred Mann version of which is also included on the soundtrack album. In addition, Vada and Thomas J. play “The Name Game” and sing “Witch Doctor” in the film, and Vada has posters of the Broadway Musical Hair, The Carpenters, and Donny Osmond on her bedroom wall.
My Girl (1991)
Directed by: Howard Zieff
Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ann Nelson, Peter Michael Goetz, Jane Hallaren, Anthony R. Jones, Lara Steinick, Kristian Truelsen
Screenplay by: Laurice Elehwany
Production Design by: Joseph T. Garrity
Cinematography by: Paul Elliott
Film Editing by: Wendy Greene Bricmont
Costume Design by: Karen Patch
Set Decoration by: Linda Allen
Art Direction by: Pat Tagliaferro
Music by: James Newton Howard
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: November 27, 1991
Hits: 126
