My Girl
When your Dad's an undertaker, your Mom's in heaven, and your Grandma's got a screw loose...it's good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy.
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death.Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor.She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups.
- Signature
- Craft · Humour · Drama
- Worldwide
- $59M
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Cast
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What It's About
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Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
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The record
Awards
0 wins · 1 nomination
Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerKids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie
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Box Office & Release
My Girl returned 3.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $17M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $59M
- Release date
- Nov 27, 1991
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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