Difference between revisions of "My Girl"
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Shelley, a divorced makeup artist who wears short dresses, starts working for her father and takes an interest in Vada. Invited to Shelley's camper, Vada discovers a cookie jar full of money. In the next scene, she has enrolled in a creative writing class taught by the schoolteacher she has a crush on. Shelly and Harry go out to play bingo, watched by Vada; afterwards, they share a romantic moment. At the Fourth of July picnic, her ex-husband shows up to claim the camper; Harry slugs him and threatens him. | Shelley, a divorced makeup artist who wears short dresses, starts working for her father and takes an interest in Vada. Invited to Shelley's camper, Vada discovers a cookie jar full of money. In the next scene, she has enrolled in a creative writing class taught by the schoolteacher she has a crush on. Shelly and Harry go out to play bingo, watched by Vada; afterwards, they share a romantic moment. At the Fourth of July picnic, her ex-husband shows up to claim the camper; Harry slugs him and threatens him. | ||
| − | When she notices that Shelly is wearing a new ring, her father announces they are engaged to be married before the end of the summer. Vada runs away with Thomas (for all of one day). The next morning, she screams because she hemorrhaging. Shelly has "the talk" with her, and strangely they bond over this. | + | When she notices that Shelly is wearing a new ring, her father announces they are engaged to be married before the end of the summer. Vada runs away with Thomas (for all of one day). The next morning, she screams because she hemorrhaging. Shelly has [[birds and the bees|"the talk"]] with her, and strangely they bond over this. |
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Revision as of 19:22, November 24, 2008
My Girl (1991) introduces Annette Chlumsky as Vada, a precocious 11-year-old girl who can't get any normal adult attention from Harry, her widowed undertaker father (Dan Akroyd); her grandmother and doesn't respond to anyone. She refuses to play with girls her own age, preferring the company of boys or unrelated adults. In the opening act of the movie, she fakes being sick (see hypochondriac) and teases some little boys of her acquaintance by pretending her grandmother is a not-quite-dead corpse. She gets more attention from her father's assistant.
Shelley, a divorced makeup artist who wears short dresses, starts working for her father and takes an interest in Vada. Invited to Shelley's camper, Vada discovers a cookie jar full of money. In the next scene, she has enrolled in a creative writing class taught by the schoolteacher she has a crush on. Shelly and Harry go out to play bingo, watched by Vada; afterwards, they share a romantic moment. At the Fourth of July picnic, her ex-husband shows up to claim the camper; Harry slugs him and threatens him.
When she notices that Shelly is wearing a new ring, her father announces they are engaged to be married before the end of the summer. Vada runs away with Thomas (for all of one day). The next morning, she screams because she hemorrhaging. Shelly has "the talk" with her, and strangely they bond over this.