My Girl

Theatrical Release Date: 1991 11 27 (USA)

UPC: 043396509993

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Watch With Your Kids, Children in Peril]

Summary: Howard Zieff directed this comedy-drama about the emotional awakening of a young girl in a small Pennsylvania town during the summer of 1972. Anna Chlumsky plays eleven-year-old Vada, a quiet child living with her widowed father Harry Dultenfuss (Dan Aykroyd), a local mortician who prepares bodies in his basement. Vada feels responsible for the death of her mother, who died giving birth to her, and lives in an emotional cocoon, her only friend being a personable local boy, Thomas J. Sennett (Macauly Culkin), who suffers from allergies. Like Vada, Harry keeps to himself, until a freelance make-up artist, Shelly DeVoto (Jamie Lee Curtis), comes to town and gets a job working with Harry. Shelly and Harry fall in love and Vada feels threatened by her presence. But then a personal tragedy forces Vada to come out of her emotional shell. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Kiss – MTV Movie Awards

Features: Languages: English, Spanish, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Theatrical trailer
Scene selections

My Girl

Format: DVD

Release Date: 05/27/1998

Audio: DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 102 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [4:03]
2. Embalming His Teacher [1:32]
3. Meeting Shelly [3:44]
4. Hypochondria Blues [2:19]
5. Secret Love [3:04]
6. Teasing Vada [3:15]
7. Locked In [3:31]
8. In Shelly's Camper [2:28]
9. Creative Writing Class [5:14]
10. Blood Brothers [3:25]
11. Make-Up Lesson [4:33]
12. Brotherly Advice [3:30]
13. Bingo Game [2:50]
14. Invitation [5:32]
15. Group Meditation [3:59]
16. July 4th Barbecue [7:29]
17. The Beehive [1:35]
18. The Carnival [3:51]
19. Running Away [4:03]
20. The Facts of Life [1:27]
21. "One For My Baby" [2:11]
22. "Ever Kissed Anyone?" [2:46]
23. Thomas J. [4:37]
24. The Funeral [3:45]
25. Heartbreak [5:48]
26. Shared Memories [3:11]
27. Mrs. Sennett [1:54]
28. Vada's Poem [6:19]

Andrea LeVasseur

A family-friendly tearjerker, the childhood drama My Girl was made by commercial advertising director Howard Zieff. First time actress Anna Chlumsky is totally likeable as Veda, an 11-year-old adventurous girl with an overactive imagination. Her mother's death and her father's profession as a mortician have informed her quirky obsessions with disease and death, but the macabre subject matter is treated tenderly and the characters are given compassion. As scatterbrained dad Harry, Dan Aykroyd is entertaining in one of his early transitions to dramatic roles, and Jamie Lee Curtis appears to be having fun as kooky beautician Shelly. If sometimes overly precocious, Veda is still a believable kid who yearns for attention from her father and gets a crush on her English teacher, Mr. Bixler (Griffin Dunne). Her most endearing scenes are shared with best friend Thomas J., played by child superstar Macaulay Culkin, fresh from the runaway success of Home Alone. Though it is guilty of being heavy-handed, My Girl still offers an accessible tale of love and loss featuring several fine performances. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Dave Caprita  Actor 
Henry Kohn  Actor 
Edgar Allan Poe IV  Actor 
Ray Buktenica  Actor 
T.J. Collazo  Actor 
Peter Michael Goetz  Actor 
Shane Obedzinski  Actor 
Jodie Wilson  Actor 
John de Russy  Actor 
Zachary McLemore  Actor 
Kurt Smildsin  Actor 
Ellen Jacoby  Actor 
Cassi Abel  Actor 
George Colangelo  Actor 
Anthony Giaimo  Actor 
Paul Nagle, Jr.  Actor 
Kristian Truelsen  Actor 
Nancy L. Chlumsky  Actor 
Anthony Finazzo  Actor 
Florence Mistrot  Actor 
Lara Steinick  Actor 
Mary Colquhoun  Actor 
Harvey Bellman  Actor 
Amanda Cole  Actor 
Robert V. Girolami  Actor 
Tom Villard  Actor 
Bree Butler  Actor 
Bill Cordell  Actor 
Jane Hallaren  Actor 
Linda Perri  Actor 
Glenda Chism  Actor 
Lynn Sellers  Actor 
Anthony Jones  Actor 
Barbara Benedek  Screenwriter 
Joseph M. Caracciolo, Jr.  Executive Producer 
Laurice Elehwany  Screenwriter 
David T. Friendly  Executive Producer 
Brian Grazer  Producer 
James Newton Howard  Composer (Music Score) 
Howard Zieff  Director 
Macaulay Culkin  Actor 
Anna Chlumsky  Actor 
Dan Aykroyd  Actor 
Jamie Lee Curtis  Actor 
Richard Masur  Actor 
Griffin Dunne  Actor 
Ann Nelson  Actor 

Country: USA