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I cry every time I watch this. Its a very cute film with a great message. But man, I just cant get away with not crying...Anyone young and old should watch this. They'll be sure to love it as much as I do.
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My Girl is a real tearjerker, simply the best! I can watch this film over and over again. Anna Chlumsky had great range for such a young actress, and it's too bad she didn't make a lot of films, but as the main character, Vada Sultenfuss you can't resist that beyond her years charm. Great supporting cast as well, who would have thought Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis could achieve unbelievable chemistry. This film deals with death so get ready to ball your eyes out, my only gripe with the dvd is it should be re-released on widescreen. I highly recommend this wonderful and tender coming of age film, also check the sequel as well. Enjoy!
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It's hard being a young girl on the cusp of womanhood, but Vada Sultanfuss' (Chlumsky) life is really complex. She blames herself for her mother's death in childbirth. Her father's (Aykroyd) occupation as the town mortician only gives her a case of "Intern's Syndrome" where she literally believes she's coming down with whatever the cause of death was for the last decedent---the prostate cancer scenes were really sad and funny.
Then, her father hires Shelly (Curtis) as a restoration artist and the plot thickens as the two fall in love. Vada has a love interest of her own--her English teacher--who she pursues by taking a poetry class in the summertime.
WARNING: the film will make you cry in a couple of places. It's very well acted and in my opinion, worth at least one viewing. If you like coming of age films, it may well be worth owning as well.
"My Girl" is definitely a blast from the past. I remember so many of the 1970's references in that film, particularly the fashions and the music. James Newton Howard of Toto fame created the soundtrack for this film and as usual his choices for theme music for particular sections are just spot on.
Well done, overall!
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I remember watching this movie when it came out and loving it. It's still one of my favorite films. Funny, touching, and wonderful era.
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Whenever I think of this movie, I think of the death of the Thomas character and nothing else, but there's really much more to the movie than that. This could have been a very deep and moving film even if the whole bee-stinging incident was completely left out.
Okay, the movie starts out with a glimpse of the Sultenfuss family in their funeral home. And if I misspell any names they'll just have to remained misspelled, since I don't have the energy to look all this stuff up. Let me comment on something else, too. I watched this movie multiple times as a kid, and I still freaking forgot that the main character lived in a funeral home. That is a major, MAJOR part of the movie. How could I forget it? Amazing.
Well anyway, a woman shows up at the door of the funeral home asking for the make-up artist job. It seems that the owner of the home was smart enough to leave any reference to "deceased" out of the job description title in the newspaper. But the woman is a good sport and takes the job anyway, and since she lives in a motorhome she's there practially all the time, so she becomes like one of the family.
Well, while all this is going on, we follow the daughter of the funeral home owner, Veda, to see what a day in her life is like. It seems she constantly goes to a doctor and complains about how sick she is. We also find out she has a crush on her teacher, and because of him she's inspired to be a writer. So much that she takes a college level writing class over the summer. Pretty impressive for an [..], or however old she is.
She never hangs around with other girls, and spends all her time hanging around with her best friend Thomas instead. And although they do everything together, I still felt I didn't know very much at all about Thomas. I don't know if this was intentional on the part of the film makers or not. Honestly, it didn't seem that too much camera time was devoted to Thomas. The vast majority was spent on Veda and her dad. Her dad actually plays a big, big part of this movie. In fact, I would say that the development of his romantic relationship with the makeup lady and the effect it has on Veda is really the meat of the film. The sudden death of Thomas at the end and its particular effect is just the exclamation point to this long buildup.
Overall, this movie is a detailed account of an extraordinary character who already has a disposition to sadness and still is forced to face major issues at such a young age in life. I would say its even deeper than the Bridge to Terebithia book, which My Girl might have stemmed from. Honestly, as I watched this I found myself believing Veda wrote her own lines, because they're so much like what a child would say, especially in her wonderful description of Heaven.
I always used to think the title My Girl referred to her being Thomas's girl, then for a while I thought it referred to her being her dad's girl, and now I'm thinking that she's really the audience's girl. We as the audience are privileged to see all her dreams and secrets and fears that her writing teacher asks for but is only blessed enough to see after she confronts those fears at the very end of the movie.
Unless you can find a film that does a better job of addressing these issues, I would recommend My Girl as a must-see.
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