If you loved Fried Green Tomatoes, try My Girl
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Fried Green Tomatoes, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What My Girl is
Small-town Pennsylvania, summer, a hearse idles. A funeral parlor, a father's gentle guidance, a young girl's dark fascinations. Howard Zieff finds gentle humor in awkward adolescence.

