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1991 Us coming-of-age comedy-drama film by Howard Zieff

My Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed past	Howard Zieff
Written past	Laurice Elehwany
Produced by	Brian Grazer
Starring	Dan Aykroyd Jamie Lee Curtis Macaulay Culkin Anna Chlumsky Griffin Dunne
Cinematography	Paul Elliott
Edited past	Wendy Greene Bricmont
Music past	James Newton Howard
Production visitor	Imagine Entertainment
Distributed past	Columbia Pictures
Release appointment	Nov 27, 1991 (1991-11-27)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English language
Budget	$17 meg^[1]
Box office	$121.5 meg

My Girl is a 1991 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Laurice Elehwany, and starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, and Anna Chlumsky in her beginning role in a major movement picture. The flick tells the story of an xi-year-old girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania, during the summertime of 1972. The moving picture's title refers to the classic 1964 song of the same name by The Temptations, which is also featured in the film's terminate credits. A book based on the motion-picture show was written past Patricia Hermes.^[2] The film grossed $121 million on a budget of $17 one thousand thousand. A sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.

Plot [edit]

Vada Sultenfuss is an 11-year-old girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1972. Her father, Harry Sultenfuss, operates the town'due south funeral parlor, which also serves every bit their home. Vada'southward upbringing leads her to endure from hypochondria and develop an obsession with death, and her begetter fails to understand information technology. Also living with them is "Gramoo", Vada's paternal grandmother, whose recent mind wandering accentuates Vada's worries. Her uncle Phil lives nearby and frequently helps the family.

Vada hangs out with Thomas J. Sennett, an unpopular boy her age who is allergic to "everything". Other girls tease the two, thinking they are more just friends. Thomas J. oft accompanies Vada when she visits the doctor, who assures her that she is not sick. He is quite squeamish to her, although she is often unkind in return.

Vada'due south summer begins well. She befriends Shelly DeVoto, the new makeup artist at the funeral parlor, who provides her with some much needed guidance. She also develops a crush on Mr. Bixler, her 5th-form schoolhouse teacher, and hears near an adult poetry writing grade he is teaching. Wondering how to pay for the class, Vada schemes subsequently seeing plenty coin in a cookie jar in Shelly'due south camper. During her first form, when advised to write about what is in her soul, Vada fears that she killed her female parent, who died 2 days subsequently giving birth to her.

When Harry and Shelly start dating, Vada'southward attitude towards Shelly changes. One night, Vada follows Harry and Shelly to a bingo game and brings Thomas J. along to disrupt it. On the Fourth of July, when Shelly's ex-husband Danny shows up, Vada hopes that he will take Shelly back, but to no avail.

Following the holiday, and another doc visit, Vada and Thomas J. spot a beehive in the woods, which Thomas J. knocks downwardly. Vada loses her mood ring in the process, and while the 2 await for information technology, the bees swarm and force them to run away. Soon later, Harry invites Vada to a funfair, but she is unenthusiastic to go when he announces Shelly is likewise coming. Vada becomes distressed when the two announce their engagement there, leading her to contemplate running away.

After, Vada screams when she discovers she is hemorrhaging. With Harry not around, Shelly politely explains to Vada that she is experiencing her first period. As Vada accepts this happens only to girls, she is unwilling to see Thomas J., who happens to come past soon afterward. A couple of days later, Vada and Thomas J. sit nether a willow tree, wondering what a first kiss feels like, and they share i. Subsequently Vada heads habitation, Thomas J. returns to the forest to search for Vada'south mood band. Unaware that the beehive he knocked down is still agile, he is surrounded and attacked by the bees, and dies as a result.

Harry is left to deliver the tragic news to Vada. Following 1 more doctor visit, a devastated Vada stays in her bedroom for a total day. Prior to Thomas J.'s funeral, Shelly suggests that Harry console Vada, just he brushes her off. To this, Shelly emotionally urges him to realize the significance of his daughter's pain. When Vada finally leaves her bedroom and sees Thomas J. in his casket, her grief becomes so strong that she runs away. In tears, she rushes to Mr. Bixler'southward house, wanting to stay with him but discovering he is engaged.

Vada continues her grieving on the willow tree, where she and Thomas J. hung out. When Vada returns home, everyone is relieved, including Shelly, whom Vada begins to accept every bit her future stepmother. Her grief besides manages to mend the rift between her and her begetter, who assures Vada that her mother'south decease was non her fault.

Toward the finish of summertime, Vada and her male parent run into and comfort Mrs. Sennett, who nevertheless struggles with her son'due south death. She returns Vada'southward mood ring, which Thomas J. had constitute. On the last mean solar day of her writing class, Vada reads a poem in retention of her best friend.

Bandage [edit]

Dan Aykroyd every bit Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto
Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett
Anna Chlumsky every bit Vada Sultenfuss
Richard Masur equally Phil Sultenfuss
Griffin Dunne as Mr. Bixler
Ann Nelson equally Gramoo Sultenfuss
Anthony R. Jones every bit Arthur

Production [edit]

The screenplay, written by Laurice Elehwany, was originally titled Born Jaundiced, and was purchased past Imagine Entertainment in July 1990.^[iii] On Baronial 24, 1990, information technology was reported in Daily Multifariousness that the screenplay had been re-titled to I Am Woman, but was subsequently changed to its final championship, My Daughter, in the jump of 1991.^[3] Elehwany based the fictional setting of Madison, Pennsylvania, on the minor towns in southwestern Pennsylvania, where she grew up.^[3]

Culkin and Chlumsky were cast in the lead roles of Thomas J. and Vada, respectively, in January 1991.^[3] Filming took place in Bartow and Sanford, Florida showtime in February 1991.^[3] Exteriors of the Sultenfuss home were supplied by a real Victorian abode in Bartow, while the house'southward interiors were congenital on a soundstage in Orlando.^[three]

When My Daughter was submitted to the Move Picture Association of America (MPAA) in September 1991, it was rated PG-13.^[3] Subsequently that month, the film's producers won an appeal to take the movie reclassified to a PG-rating.^[three]

Release [edit]

My Girl was released on November 27, 1991.^[iii]

Critical response [edit]

The picture show holds a 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes based on sixteen reviews. ^[iv] Roger Ebert gave the picture show 3.v stars out of 4, writing: "The beauty in this film is in its directness. There are some obligatory scenes. Simply there are too some very original and touching ones. This is a pic that has its center in the right identify."^[v] Owen Gleiberman of Amusement Weekly praised Chlumsky'southward performance in the film, merely conceded that "there'due south something discomforting about a motion-picture show that takes the experience of an audacious, conflicted kid and reduces it to: She needs to Confront Her Feelings. My Girl has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), however it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality."^[half-dozen]

Pic critic Caryn James cited the film every bit being role of a "trend toward stronger, more realistic themes in children'due south films", specifically its representations of expiry, specifically that of a young kid.^[7] David Kehr of the Chicago Tribune wrote of the film: "If My Daughter helps stimulate family unit discussions of death and loss, it will certainly have washed some adept in the world. Simply at the same time, its artful involvement is near nil... Though My Daughter seeks to stir large, devastating emotions, Zieff seems afraid to impact anything besides hard or unpleasant, lest it amerce his audience. The results are curiously gutless and unmoving, as Zieff finds himself stuck with a sentimentality without substance, a poesy without pain."^[8] Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times was similarly critical of the film's "syrupy" elements, terminal: "The mixture of winsomeness and deadpan frights in My Girl ought to exist weirder and more than interesting than information technology is. After all, a daughter who survives a household where bodies are embalmed in the basement is the kind of plucky heroine that movies about kids demand right now. Or movies about adults, for that thing."^[nine]

Janet Maslin of The New York Times was critical of the screenplay for existence made upwardly of "loose ends jump together only by intimations of mortality and family crunch," summarizing: "It's non hard for the maudlin My Daughter to make its audience weepy at the sight of America's favorite kid in an open bury. Just it is difficult for this flick to mix the sugary unreality of a tv set show with such a clumsy and manipulative morbid streak."^[10] Variety noted: "Plenty of shrewd commercial adding went into concocting the right sugar coating for this story of an 11-twelvemonth-former girl'south painful maturation, just [the] chemistry seems correct."^[11]

Box office [edit]

My Girl opened at No. 2 with $12,391,783, and grossed $59,489,799 domestically,^[one] then $62 million internationally,^[12] for a worldwide total of $121,489,799.

Music [edit]

The soundtrack of the moving-picture show contains several 1960s and 1970s pop hits, in improver to the championship song (by The Temptations), including "Wedding Bell Blues" (The 5th Dimension), "If You Don't Know Me by At present" (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes), "Bad Moon Ascension" (Creedence Clearwater Revival), "Good Lovin'" (The Rascals), and "Saturday in the Park" (Chicago). When Vada gets upset, she plugs her ears and sings "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", the Manfred Isle of man version of which is as well included on the soundtrack album. In addition, Vada and Thomas J. play "The Name Game" and sing "Witch Dr.", while Vada has posters of the Broadway musical Hair, the Carpenters, and Donny Osmond on her bedroom wall.

Certifications [edit]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b "My Girl". Box Role Mojo . Retrieved June 15, 2015.
^ Hermes, Patricia; Elehwany, Laurice (1991). My Girl (Offset EDITION 4th Printing ed.). New York: Pocket Books. ISBN978-0-671-75929-two.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "My Girl". AFI Itemize of Feature Films . Retrieved September 7, 2018.
^ "My Daughter". Rotten Tomatoes.
^ Ebert, Roger (November 27, 1991). "My Daughter". Chicago Sunday-Times . Retrieved June xv, 2015 – via RogerEbert.com.
^ Gleiberman, Owen (December 6, 1991). "My Girl". Amusement Weekly . Retrieved August 29, 2018.
^ James, Caryn (December 1, 1991). "FILM VIEW; Reality Comes With the Popcorn". The New York Times . Retrieved Baronial 30, 2018.
^ Kehr, David (November 27, 1991). "'My Girl' Wallows In Weeping Generalizations". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved September vii, 2018.
^ Rainer, Peter (Nov 27, 1991). "MOVIE REVIEW : A Conventional 'My Daughter' Brings Out the Hankies". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved September 5, 2018.
^ Maslin, Janet (November 27, 1991). "Review/Film; Growing Upwards Surrounded Past Expiry". The New York Times . Retrieved August thirty, 2018.
^ "Review: 'My Daughter'". Diversity. 1991. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
^ Groves, Don (Feb 22, 1993). "Hollywood Wows World Wickets". Variety. p. 85.
^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1992 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 November 2021.