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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, All Movie Guide

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