My Girl
“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.”
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...
This film feels like a sun-drenched, bittersweet journey through childhood summers and the tender pangs of first love and loss. It's a nostalgic, poignant embrace of innocence confronting life's harsh realities, wrapped in a warm, melancholic glow that lingers long after the credits roll.
