History Film / MyGirl

* [[spoiler:InfantImmortality: Horribly averted. Thomas J. dies from bee stings.]]

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "''Vada Sultenfuss''? Tough break."

* FirstKiss

* TheRunaway: Vada runs away after she finds out Harry and Shelly are getting married, but it lasts less than a day and no one notices. [[spoiler: She does it again when she can't cope with Thomas J.'s death.]]

* FreudianExcuse: MissingMom + guilty for the DeathByChildbirth + growing up in a funeral home and being around dead people all the time = the eccentric Vada Sultenfuss

* FreudianExcuse: MissingMom (she feels guilty for the DeathByChildbirth) + growing up in a funeral home and being around dead people all the time = the eccentric Vada Sultenfuss

* FreudianExcuse: MissingMom + growing up in a funeral home and being around dead people all the time = the eccentric Vada Sultenfuss

* TheRunaway: Vada runs away after she finds out Harry and Shelly are getting married, but it lasts less than a day and no one notices.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Thomas J. reminds Vada that she can't marry her teacher because it's against the law, and that "he'll give you all A's!"

* TheRunaway: Vada runs away after she finds out Harry and Shelly are getting married, but it lasts less than a day and no one notices.

* AlmostKiss: Between Vada's father and Shelly, before Vada intervenes.

* BloodBrothers: Vada and Thomas do this.

* ParentalObliviousness: Vada's father doesn't take her eccentric behavior or apparent hypochondria seriously.
* ParentsAsPeople: The movie occasionally shifts its focus from Vada to her father.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Inverted; Vada is annoyed when kids tease her about Thomas being her boyfriend.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Thomas and Vada.

* ParentalObliviousness: Vada's father doesn't take her apparent hypochondria seriously.

* [[spoiler:InfantImmortality: Horribly averted. Thomas J dies from bee sings.]]

* TragicKeepsake: The mood ring becomes one.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Vada experiences her first period, and panics when it happens.

* DeathByChildbirth: Vada's mother.

* DiedInChildbirth: Vada's mother.

''My Girl'' is a 1991 coming-of-age drama film directed by Howard Zieff and starring Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. The movie is about Vada Sultenfuss (Chlumsky), an 11-year-old girl living with her father (Aykroyd). Vada is obsessed with death. Her mother had been dead, and her dad owns a funeral parlor. Her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett (Culkin) has various allergies and her father falls in love with a makeup expert he hires for the parlor. Vada tries everything she can to split them up while sticking around with Thomas J. for some various adventures.

* ComingOfAgeStory

* ComingOfAgeStory
* TearJerker'': [[spoiler:The death of Thomas]].

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''Tear Jerker'': There are quite a few of these in the movie, and a big one in particular. Come one people, I can't have been the only jerkoff to have seen this movie. Let's get the ball rolling.

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The film's success spawned a sequel in 1994, with Chlumsky, Aykroyd and Curtis reprising their roles and Austin O'Brien (''LastActionHero'') rounding out the cast.