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About
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...
Theatrical
Nov 27, 1991
Box Office
$59.5M
Budget
$17.0M
Return
3.5x
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 17, 2015
Theaters
2
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
Quotes
See all →Reflections on Loss and Resilience
Vada
Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day? Is it because he could not stay? On your branches he would swing, Do you long for the happiness that day would bring? He found shelter in your shade, you thought his laughter would never fade. Weeping willow stop your tears, for there is something to calm your fears. You think death has ripped you forever apart, but I know he'll always be in your heart.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Childhood Perspectives on Marriage and Rules
Vada
Why do you think people wanna get married?
Thomas J
When you get older, you just have to.
Vada
I'm gonna marry Mr. Bixler.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
My Girl Collection
In My Girl, young Vada's life was turned upside down by a first kiss, a first crush and the painful first step down the path to growing up. Then in My Girl 2, Vada found herself in that awkward time b...
Cast
Full credits →A
Anna Chlumsky
Vada Sultenfuss
M
Macaulay Culkin
Thomas J. Sennett
D
Dan Aykroyd
Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis
Shelly DeVoto
R
Richard Masur
Phil Sultenfuss
G
Griffin Dunne
Mr. Jake Bixler
A
Ann Nelson
Gramoo Sultenfuss
P
Peter Michael Goetz
Dr. Welty
J
Jane Hallaren
Nurse Randall
T
Tom Villard
Justin
L
Lara Steinick
Ronda
K
Kristian Truelsen
Charles
D
David Caprita
Ray
J
Jody Wilson
Mrs. Hunsaker
L
Linda Perri
Betty
G
Glenda Chism
Thomas J.'s Mother
B
Bill Cordell
Thomas J.'s Father
R
Ray Buktenica
Danny
S
Shane Obedzinski
Billy
E
Edgar Allan Poe IV
Carnival Barker
