My Girl (1991)

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.

102 min★ 6.9 · 99,571 votes

• Comedy
• Drama
• Family

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...

Release date

November 27, 1991

Country of origin

United States

Music

James Newton Howard

Budget

$17,000,000

Box office

$59,490,000