# My Girl (1991)

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**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Howard Zieff
**Written by**: Laurice Elehwany
**Starring**: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, Griffin Dunne

> *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.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, gut-punch, tender

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