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My Girl [1992]
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
A doomed Macaulay Culkin becomes the object of affection for a little girl (Anna Chlumsky), estranged from her widowed father (Dan Aykroyd). This somewhat daring premise has various emotional buffers to keep young viewers from going into shock from Culkin's demise, but My Girl is also not shut off from real feelings. And while the story remains safely predictable, at the end of the day it is still a bittersweet experience. Culkin's performance is okay in that somewhat mannered way of his post-Home Alone career, but Anna Chlumsky is unusually sophisticated in her understanding of her character and situation. Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis are perfectly stable as the kids' single parents. This is directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin). --Tom Keogh
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Synopsis
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.
My girl
Review date: 2008-02-24 Rating: 2 out of 10
If you want your kids to cry themselves to sleep then this is a great movie... if not it sucks...
I watched this as a kid expecting a nice film, and cried so much i made myself sick.
you don't expect kids to die in anything other than documentaries or real life stories..
I don't recommended this movie unless you actually want to depress yourself.
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Reviews
Beautiful story, but quite boring
Review date: 2008-01-14 Rating: 6 out of 10
This film wasn't very moving. Infact, in my opinion, all it was, was two kids that became close friends and hung out a lot with each other. Not really very exciting.
will always love it
Review date: 2006-12-14 Rating: 10 out of 10
i use to watch this film every time i went to my mams best friens house from about the age of 6 she moved when i was about 11 so i didnt get to see it for years and few weeks ago i saw it on dvd so decided to buy it but turns out she had left the vidio behind for me and my mam had forgoten to give it to me so now i have tow copys go me lol i first watched this movie when i was 6 and i still love everything about it (8 years later) i cry every time i watch this it is so brilliant YOU HAVE TO SEEE IT my girl 2 is great aswell but 1 is the best i love it and always will
This movie changed my life
Review date: 2006-07-07 Rating: 10 out of 10
I thought I knew hurt. I thought I knew pain. I didn't know a thing.
"My Girl" is the single most important piece of cinema in the last 100 years. No other film brings you to such fathomless depths and such exhilarating highs.
I am James Naughton. I am a man. I am nothing.
I am My Girl.
pretty poor stuff
Review date: 2006-06-06 Rating: 2 out of 10
A dire film that has no plot or interest what so ever, as it limps along to a dull ending; it is a real wonder how so many people like this movie.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Anna Chlumsky
Jamie Lee Curtis
Macaulay Culkin
Dan Aykroyd
Richard Masur
Creators:
Dan Aykroyd (Primary Contributor)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Uca
Manufacturer: Uca
EAN: 5050582247084
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2004-05-10
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 98 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1991-11-27
Language: English (Original Language)