Underplayed Gems

My Girl (1991)

My Girl poster
Directed by
Howard Zieff
Genre
drama film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 2,315 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An 11 year old girl named Vada spends the summer of 1972 in Pennsylvania. She copes with her father's new girlfriend and her own feelings about death.

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What happens

My Girl is a 1991 American coming-of-age romantic 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 first role in a major motion picture. A book based on the film was written by Patricia Hermes. The film tells the story of an 11-year-old girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1972. The film's title refers to the classic 1964 song of the same name by The Temptations, which is also featured in the film's end credits. The film was released by Columbia Pictures on November 27, 1991, and grossed $121 million on a budget of $17 million. A sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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