Search - My Girl on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Watch With Your Kids, Children in Peril Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 05/27/1998 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Comedy Drama, Children's/Family, Childhood Drama, Coming-of-Age

Howard Zieff directed this comedy-drama about the emotional awakening of a young girl in a small Pennsylvania town during the summer of 1972. Anna Chlumsky plays eleven-year-old Vada, a quiet child living with her widowed father Harry Dultenfuss (Dan Aykroyd), a local mortician who prepares bodies in his basement. Vada feels responsible for the death of her mother, who died giving birth to her, and lives in an emotional cocoon, her only friend being a personable local boy, Thomas J. Sennett (Macauly Culkin), who suffers from allergies. Like Vada, Harry keeps to himself, until a freelance make-up artist, Shelly DeVoto (Jamie Lee Curtis), comes to town and gets a job working with Harry. Shelly and Harry fall in love and Vada feels threatened by her presence. But then a personal tragedy forces Vada to come out of her emotional shell. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Macaulay Culkin - Thomas J. Sennett
Anna Chlumsky - Vada Sultenfuss
Dan Aykroyd - Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis - Shelly DeVoto
Richard Masur - Phil Sultenfuss
Griffin Dunne - Mr. Bixler

Howard Zieff's childhood comedy-drama My Girl comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround, and a Spanish soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Mono. Subtitles are accessible in all three of those languages as well. Supplemental materials include the theatrical trailer. This is an undistinguished release from Columbia/TriStar. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide