My Girl (1991)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend. I finally got to see 'My Girl' the 1991 Howard Zieff Movie starring Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis and to be honest i don't understand why the film is so low rated here on IMDb because it was really good it was both funny and very moving with the saddest part being Thoma's Ending also i feel like Vada is the one who steals the show for the most part she is full of questions about her age and she is trying to learn about love or what it means exactly and her relationship with Thomas felt very natural with the 2 kids having a really good chemistry together, her father Harry is a man with a troubled and sad past too and you understand why he is such a lonely person that tries to mind his own business but of course things change once Shelly shows up. Overall i think that this movie was terrific it was funny but at the same time very sad and i know that there's a sequel as well but i don't know if it's as good as the original to be honest.

1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis) and life will never be the same again.Wonderful movie, and so much better than I expected. From the title and synopsis I thought it was going to be some sort of romantic drama made for teens/pre-teens. However, it is much much more than that. A great examination of love and loss, life, death and renewal and growing up. Very emotional, especially in the final few scenes.Anna Chlumsky is great as Vada. Most child characters end up being irritating, as they tend to be written for children and acted in bratty fashion. Vada's character is wonderful and Anna Chlumsky, in her second movie and first major role, gives a superb performance. Sadly, unlike her co-star Macaulay Culkin, her career never really took off after this and it took until the series Veep in 2012 before she got the sort of role she deserved.On that note, Macaulay Culkin's role is more subdued, has less screen time and less dialogue-intense than Chlumsky's. He does a solid job though.Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis put in good performances too.

My Girl takes place at a small town funeral home in 1972, following the strange, adventurous and tragic summer of a little girl named Vada who acts like a Harold & Maude extra; she's obsessed with death and dying and is a hypochondriac as well, making her appear very strange to other kids in town. Her only friend is a nerdy but kind boy her age named Thomas J. who is "allergic to everything". Vada truly cares about him but has trouble expressing her friendship; often she pushes him around but for most of the summer the two are inseparable. Her father,meanwhile, hires a makeup artist for the bodies at the funeral home, Shelly, who Vada becomes close to until Shelly and Vada's dad start dating. A tragedy happened after Vada was born when her mom died after birthing her, so Vada naturally feels guilty about that. Her confusion about all that, plus a crush she's developed on a teacher, are driving her crazy, but on the bright side she still has Thomas J. for support as well as a pet goldfish from the local carnival... but when something horrible happens, Vada realizes for the first time how valuable friendship is and how life is a gift, and it makes her a more mature person.My Girl is nostalgic, funny, sad, hopeful and entertaining all at once, with great soundtrack and acting. Macaulay Culkin often plays outgoing, annoying roles (Home Alone, The Good Son), so it's amazing how he can go from the role of spoiled bratty kids to soft-spoken, shy Thomas J. just like that. Jamie Lee Curtis (from the 1980 Canadian horror film Prom Night), was really good as well. Vada's character was a little annoying at first but as the movie progresses she changes. Along with the soundtrack are also some popular 60's and 70's hits, including "My Girl" by The Temptations, where this movie got its name.This movie is incredibly sad and has a looming theme of death, but at the same time it's a wonderful story about growing up, the meaning of friendship, the meaning of life and the nostalgia of the 1970's. It's definitely worth checking out, but avoid the sequel because the sequel wasn't very good at all.

The story of friendship in this movie is so beautiful and I can't restrain myself from crying towards the end of the movie. Both Vada and Thomas is a good actor.The movie is great, but I think the friendship of Vada and Thomas J. is not concrete enough to make it heart-wrenching at the end maybe because there isn't enough laughter in their days that makes people reminisce about when the tragedy happen. but still, the tragedy is good enough to make people cry.But their friendship is great and so tragic that it is almost unfair to Vada for losing important people from her life.