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My Girl 2

1994 · 99 min

A gentle, nostalgic coming-of-age story that balances warmth and melancholy as a girl uncovers her family's past.

Tagline
There's being a kid. There's being a adult. And then there's that year in between.
Overview
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • grief
  • coming-of-age
  • memory
Places
  • small town
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, family
Directed by
Howard Zieff
Written by
Janet Kovalcik
Starring
Anna Chlumsky, Austin O'Brien, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, Christine Ebersole, JD Souther, Angeline Ball
Music
Cliff Eidelman
Cinematography
Paul Elliott
Runtime
99 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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