"My Girl" is about a very complicated 11-year-old girl. I say that because I don't remember being eleven as being as complicated as it was for Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky).
Anna was a slightly different eleven-year-old girl. Her mother died giving birth to her, her father runs a funeral parlor out of the house, and she is a hypochondriac. Other than that, her life is normal. One of the normalcies of her life is her best friend Thomas J. (Macaulay Culkin). The two of them do all the things that normal kids in a small town in 1972 would do.
The movie is a precious movie. I don't know if it over-complicated girlhood or not because I'm not a girl and never was. The essence of the movie was death: preparing for it, observing it, and getting past it. It's a morbid topic if you think about it, but "My Girl" toned down the morbidity of it by having a child star. "My Girl" is cute, sad, happy, and heartwarming and the dearest character Macaulay played in his formative years.
Anna was a slightly different eleven-year-old girl. Her mother died giving birth to her, her father runs a funeral parlor out of the house, and she is a hypochondriac. Other than that, her life is normal. One of the normalcies of her life is her best friend Thomas J. (Macaulay Culkin). The two of them do all the things that normal kids in a small town in 1972 would do.
The movie is a precious movie. I don't know if it over-complicated girlhood or not because I'm not a girl and never was. The essence of the movie was death: preparing for it, observing it, and getting past it. It's a morbid topic if you think about it, but "My Girl" toned down the morbidity of it by having a child star. "My Girl" is cute, sad, happy, and heartwarming and the dearest character Macaulay played in his formative years.