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My Girl
A hypochondriac tomboy called Vada experiences a wealth of human emotions when she meets Thomas J. Read more
| Starring | Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky |
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| Director | Howard Zieff |
| Genres | Children, Drama, Family |
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My Girl
A hypochondriac tomboy called Vada experiences a wealth of human emotions when she meets Thomas J.
| Starring | Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky, Griffin Dunne |
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| Director | Howard Zieff |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Children, Drama, Family |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 15 Apr 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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Slick, over-sentimental account of growing up, part of Hollywood's early 90s cycle of films centred on children. It provided the first screen kiss for Culkin.
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
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Easy going family film but ultimately forgettable
Growing up isn't easy if you are a 12 year old girl who recently lost her mother and must come to terms with death, life, body changes and first love all in one summer.
Although the performances are strong and the story ticks along nicely with plenty of funny moments I somehow felt that I had seen a lot of this before and better. Where many american films about adolescence fail is in correctly portraying an age appropriate psyche. Dialogues are often overly adult and behaviours sometimes embarrassingly childish. This is where this film falls down in my view compared to European counterparts like Jean-Loup Hubert's 'Le Grand Chemin' or Lasse Halstrom's 'My Life as a Dog' which both took their protagonists far more seriously.
Over all a funny, entertaining but ultimately forgettable family movie.
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- ThomasKus from Gloucester
- Posted 07 Jul 2004 16:12
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
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Easy going family film but ultimately forgettable
Growing up isn't easy if you are a 12 year old girl who recently lost her mother and must come to terms with death, life, body changes and first love all in one summer.
Although the performances are strong and the story ticks along nicely with plenty of funny moments I somehow felt that I had seen a lot of this before and better. Where many american films about adolescence fail is in correctly portraying an age appropriate psyche. Dialogues are often overly adult and behaviours sometimes embarrassingly childish. This is where this film falls down in my view compared to European counterparts like Jean-Loup Hubert's 'Le Grand Chemin' or Lasse Halstrom's 'My Life as a Dog' which both took their protagonists far more seriously.
Over all a funny, entertaining but ultimately forgettable family movie.-
- ThomasKus from Gloucester
- Posted 07 Jul 2004 16:12
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