My Girl

PG

1991

1h 42m

Kids & Family

Drama

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250,000+ Ratings

Tomboy Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has good reason to be morbid: her mother died giving birth to her, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) operates a funeral service out of their home. The other kids think she's a freak, and it certainly doesn't help that her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), is a boy. To make matters worse, Vada is desperately in love with her English teacher, Mr. Bixler (Griffin Dunne). What's an 11-year-old girl to do?

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Critics Consensus

My Girl has a mostly sweet story and a pair of appealing young leads, but it's largely undone by its aggressively tearjerking ending.

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Sarah Fonseca

Autostraddle

When I watched My Girl as a kid, I spent 80% of the movie having Schwinn Bicycle and mood ring envy. Now, I'm also able to appreciate [the] dialogue...

Nov 3, 2018

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

My Girl has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), yet it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality.

Rated: C+

Sep 7, 2011

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Variety Staff

Variety

It’s a rough summer for an 11-year-old, but director Howard Zieff paints it in the manner of a watercolor of a youthful idyll.

Mar 26, 2009

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Erik Childress

The Friendship Dilemma Podcast

A film that renders a beautiful adolescent friendship wonderfully played by Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky, in one of the great child performances, while also not fumbling away confronting genuine lessons about grief and loss for young people.

Rated: 4/4

Jun 6, 2024

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Brian D. Johnson

Maclean's Magazine

My Girl is an exercise in mawkish sentiment, an exploitation picture for the whole family.

Oct 11, 2019

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Elliot Panek

Common Sense Media

Coming of age tale tackles death; for older kids.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 1, 2011

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Prabudhjeet A

Young love. Wanted to tell your crush but can't. Instead doing something for your crush so that they don't forget you even if you are not meant to be together. Just love this movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/19/24

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Braxton M

I keep going back to this movie and it just gets better every time I watch

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/02/24

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Nikolas R

It's a beautiful story, literally made me cry. I loved this movie as a kid, and I loved it as I got older as well.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/24

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Elvis P

I'm struggling to think why anyone would not like this. I've nit seen it before. It's funny. vada is the best. There are several one liners that are inappropriate. One in particular which is an 18. Very good film.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/24

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Leaburn O

Surprise only witty. The girl actress is excellent. Culkin is a bit dead….even before he was dead. Speaking of which…but unnecessarily sad. It's a strong film though. Watched on Prime.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/24

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Trafalgar L

"My Girl" is a coming of age dramedy that focuses on eleven and a half year old Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky), a hypochondriac tomboy scared of death. Afraid she killed her mother after being born and worried she has a chicken bone stuck in her throat. As if that isn't bad enough she, her father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) and her grandmother live in a funeral parlor. Vada is able to find comfort in her best friend Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), and her teacher Jake Bixler (Griffin Dunne). But when Harry hires a young attractive makeup artist named Shelley DeVoto (Jamie Lee Curtis) and falls in love with her it will turn out to be an unforgettable summer for Vada. She not only copes with the idea of a stepmother but the ups and downs of adolescence. On the whole this may seem like an innocent and cute movie, but looks are deceiving. With mature thematic elements and some mild language it's best that this film be shown to older children and is not for the feint of heart.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/02/24

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Howard Zieff

Director

Anna Chlumsky

Vada Margaret Sultenfuss

Macaulay Culkin

Thomas J. Sennett

Dan Aykroyd

Harry Sultenfuss

Jamie Lee Curtis

Shelly DeVoto

Richard Masur

Phil Sultenfuss

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Synopsis

Tomboy Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has good reason to be morbid: her mother died giving birth to her, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) operates a funeral service out of their home. The other kids think she's a freak, and it certainly doesn't help that her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), is a boy. To make matters worse, Vada is desperately in love with her English teacher, Mr. Bixler (Griffin Dunne). What's an 11-year-old girl to do?

Director: Howard Zieff
Producer: Brian Grazer
Screenwriter: Barbara Benedek, Laurice Elehwany
Production Co: Imagine Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Corporation
Rating: PG
Genre: Kids & Family, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $60.2M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Surround

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