My Girl

“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.”

Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky), eleven, spends the summer of 1972 signing up for a poetry class to impress her English teacher and checking herself for signs of illness. Her widowed father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) runs the funeral parlor downstairs, and her only real friend is Thomas J. (Macaulay Culkin), who is allergic to everything. Howard Zieff keeps the film at a child's eye level, so the funeral home reads as ordinary home.