My Girl Review
A family-friendly tearjerker, the childhood drama My Girl was made by commercial advertising director Howard_Zieff. First time actress Anna_Chlumsky is totally likeable as Veda, an 11-year-old adventurous girl with an overactive imagination. Her mother's death and her father's profession as a mortician have informed her quirky obsessions with disease and death, but the macabre subject matter is treated tenderly and the characters are given compassion. As scatterbrained dad Harry, Dan_Aykroyd is entertaining in one of his early transitions to dramatic roles, and Jamie_Lee_Curtis appears to be having fun as kooky beautician Shelly. If sometimes overly precocious, Veda is still a believable kid who yearns for attention from her father and gets a crush on her English teacher, Mr. Bixler (Griffin_Dunne). Her most endearing scenes are shared with best friend Thomas J., played by child superstar Macaulay_Culkin, fresh from the runaway success of Home_Alone. Though it is guilty of being heavy-handed, My Girl still offers an accessible tale of love and loss featuring several fine performances. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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