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.
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Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss
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Shelly: They're dead. All they have are their looks.
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MY GIRL ultimately takes you on a road to nowhere, but at least the ride there is reasonably pleasant. Anna Chlumsky plays a precocious 11-year-old who's obsessed with death: her mother died in childbirth and her father is a mortician--their house doubles as a funeral home. Chlumsky spends her time hanging out with best pal Macaulay Culkin (HOME ALONE), while her inattentive father (Dan Aykroyd) embarks on an unlikely romance with beautician Jamie Lee Curtis. Over the course of the movie, Chlumsky comes to terms with death and learns to accept Curtis as a mother figure.
