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List Price: $12.99 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $3 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 27 November, 1991 DVD Release : 27 May, 1998 |
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My Girl description A doomed Macaulay Culkin becomes the object of affection for a little girl (Anna Chlumsky), estranged from her widowed father (Dan Aykroyd). This somewhat daring premise has various emotional buffers to keep young viewers from going into shock from Culkin's demise, but the film is also not shut off from real feelings. And while the story remains safely ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Great character study and also a time capsule of the 70s |
| It's hard being a young girl on the cusp of womanhood, but Vada Sultanfuss' (Chlumsky) life is really complex. She blames herself for her mother's death in childbirth. Her father's (Aykroyd) occupation as the town mortician only gives her a case of "Intern's Syndrome" where she literally believes she's coming down with whatever the cause of death was for the last decedent---the prostate cancer scenes were really sad and funny.
Then, her father hires Shelly (Curtis) as a restoration artist and the plot thickens as the two fall in love. Vada has a love interest of her own--her English teacher--who she pursues by taking a poetry class in the summertime. WARNING: the film will make you cry in a couple of places. It's very well acted and in my opinion, worth at least one viewing. If you like coming of age films, it may well be worth owning as well. "My Girl" is definitely a blast from the past. I remember so many of the 1970's references in that film, particularly the fashions and the music. James Newton Howard of Toto fame created the soundtrack for this film and as usual his choices for theme music for particular sections are just spot on. Well done, overall! |
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