My Girl/My Girl 2

rama double bill. In ‘My Girl’ (1991), Vada (Anna Chlumsky), an eleven-year-old hypochondriac, spends the summer with her best friend Thomas (Macaulay Culkin). She relies on him when her undertaker father (Dan Aykroyd) starts dating a make-up artist (Jamie Lee Curtis), feeling that her relationship with her dad is threatened. However, she soon has even more to come to terms with in this coming-of-age story. In ‘My Girl 2’ (1994), Vada is now 13-years-old and living in Pennsylvania. For a school project she travels to stay with her Uncle Phil (Richard Masur) in Los Angeles, where she intends to trace her late mother’s history. Teaming up with the streetwise tearaway Nick (Austin O’Brien), her enquiries lead to a greater understanding of her mother and initiate Vada on a journey of self-discovery.