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My Girl 2 movie storyline. Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realizes she knows very little about her.
She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother. Once in LA, she finds herself under the protection of Nick, the son of Phil’s girlfriend, who at first is very annoyed at losing his holidays to escort a hick *girl* around town. However, he soon becomes more involved in the difficult search.
My Girl 2 is a 1994 American comedy-drama film and a sequel to My Girl (1991) starring Anna Chlumsky, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Austin O’Brien, Richard Masur, Christine Ebersole, Angeline Ball, Aubrey Morris, Jodie Markell. A book based on the script was written by Patricia Hermes in 1994.
About the Story
Set nearly two years after the first film, in the spring of 1974, Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) sets out on a quest to learn more about her deceased biological mother. She has matured over the past year and a half (since the first film), going from the spunky, eleven-year-old hypochondriac to a lively, yet more serious teenager seeking independence.
Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), has since married Shelly DeVoto (Jamie Lee Curtis), whom he dated in the first film; and they are expecting a baby. They still live in the Sultenfuss’ funeral home in Madison, Pennsylvania, while her Uncle Phil (Masur) has moved to Los Angeles, where he now works as a mechanic. Gramoo, Vada’s grandmother, has since died; and she still wears the mood ring that her late best friend Thomas J. died while retrieving it for her.
To accommodate the new baby, Vada moves out of her bedroom and into Gramoo’s old room, which has been renovated, and it brings further problems with adjustment. Vada even thinks about getting her own apartment while spending a night out with her father. Vada is given a school assignment to write an essay on someone she admires but has never met. She decides to write about her mother but has few sources to go on, which are all confined in a small box. Among its contents are programs of plays her mother was in (she was an aspiring actress), a passport, and a mystery paper bag with a date scribbled on it.
Vada expresses her desire to travel someday, so Shelly concocts a plan for her to travel to Los Angeles during her spring break, where she can stay with her Uncle Phil and do research on her mother, who lived in L.A. growing up. Harry does not go along with the idea, believing Vada is too young to be traveling by herself, and fearing what might happen to her in Los Angeles. Eventually, he lets her take the five-day trip.
My Girl 2 (1994)
Directed by: Howard Zieff
Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Austin O’Brien, Richard Masur, Christine Ebersole, Angeline Ball, Aubrey Morris, Jodie Markell
Screenplay by: Janet Kovalcik
Production Design by: Charles Rosen
Cinematography by: Paul Elliott
Film Editing by: Wendy Greene Bricmont
Costume Design by: Shelley Komarov
Set Decoration by: Mary Olivia McIntosh
Art Direction by: Diane Yates
Music by: Cliff Eidelman
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements and mild language.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: February 11, 1994
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