MY GIRL

Synopsis: My Girl is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff and written by Laurice Elehwany. The film, starring Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut, depicts the coming-of-age of a young girl who faces many different emotional highs and lows. The film also stars Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. A book based on the script was written by Patricia Hermes in 1991. The film's sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
1991
102 min
1,503 Views


MY GIRL:

By

My Girl (1991)

Directed by

Howard Zieff

Writing credits

Laurice Elehwany

Setting:
MADISON, PENNSYLVANIA 1972

START:

CLOSE UP OF VADA

VADA:

(to camera)

I was born jaundiced. Once I sat on a toilet

seat at a Truck stop and caught hemorrhoids.

And i've learned to live with this chicken

Bone that's been lodged in my throat for the

past three years, so I knew Dad would be

devastated when he learned of my latest

affliction.

(to Harry)

Dad, I don't wanna upset you, but my left

breast is developing at a significantly faster

rate than my right. It can only mean one

thing. Cancer. I'm dying.

HARRY:

(ignoring Vada)

O.K. Sweetie, hand me the mayonnaise out of

the fridge.

FRONT OF SULTENFUSS' HOUSE

Vada closes front door and goes down the steps to a group

of boys

VADA:

All right, who's in raise your hand.

All the boys raise their hands except Thomas J

BOY:

Are you coming or not Thomas J?

THOMAS J:

I don't think so.

VADA:

I knew he wouldn't come.

THOMAS J:

I can't, I have to go home.

BOY#2

Yeah, to play with his DOLLS.

VADA:

Leave him alone! Come on, let's go.

Group of boys enters house lead by Vada

Once inside, the group is suddenly stopped

VADA:

(to boy#2)

Hey, you didn't pay me!

BOY#2

How do I know you were gonna show us one?

VADA:

You're such a baby.

BOY#2

All right, here.

Boy reaches inside his pocket, gets money out and gives it

to Vada

VADA:

All right, follow me and don't say a word.

They walk towards two large doors, stop, and Vada turns

around

You ready?

They enter the coffin display room, and move over to the

coffin in the middle of the room

You sure you wanna see it, or is someone

gonna go yellow belly?

BOY#3

I'm not chicken!

VADA:

Okay. Lean forward.

A tense moment as the coffin lid is flung open by Vada and

the boys gasp as they look inside

GIRL#1

It's empty!

BOY#2

You're so weird!

BOY:

I want my money back!

VADA:

I was afraid of this.

They begin to move into another part of the house

BOY#2

Of what??

VADA:

Well, sometimes when we get 'em, they're not

completely dead, you know, like when they cut

a chickens head off and it still runs around

crazy.

BOY#3

You're full of sh*t.

VADA:

I bet she's roaming around this house

somewhere.

They open the door into the living room, where Grammoo is

in her rocking chair

There she is, in the rocking chair.

Pause, then Grammoo begins to rock the chair gently. The

boys all gasp and then all exit very quickly

VADA:

Hi Grammoo.

Vada seats herself upon Grammoo's lap

HARRY:

(in distance, from

downstairs)

Vada would you bring down my cigarettes?

Vada gets up and begins to leave

VADA:

Seeya later.

(kisses Grammoo on forehead)

BASEMENT, HARRY & ARTHUR WORKING ON MR. LAYTON

HARRY:

Did I tell you, he was my woodshop teacher.

ARTHUR:

You took woodshop?

HARRY:

Yeah, I made a tie rack.

ARTHUR:

I made a tie rack.

Vada comes down the stairs and stops just before the corner

that would allow her to see the corpse of Mr. Layton

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Laurice Elehwany

Laurice Elehwany Molinari, a veteran film and TV writer in Hollywood for over two decades, has penned over thirty scripts for various studios and networks. Her very first feature script, written while a fellow at the American Film Institute, became Columbia Picture’s critically acclaimed children’s classic, My Girl. She went on to pen The Brady Bunch Movie and The Amazing Panda Adventure. Laurice lives with her husband and two children in Los Angeles, the City of Angels, where her lifelong love for our heavenly guardians inspired her to write a book about them in the ETHER series. more…

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