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My Girl 2 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Howard Zieff Produced by Brian Grazer
Joseph M. Caracciolo
David T. FriendlyWritten by Laurice Elehwany Starring Dan Aykroyd
Jamie Lee Curtis
Anna Chlumsky
Austin O'BrienMusic by Cliff Eidelman Cinematography Paul Elliott Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Imagine EntertainmentRelease date(s) February 11, 1994 Running time 99 min. Country United States Language English Box office $17,359,799 (USA) My Girl 2 is a 1994 comedy-drama film starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Christine Ebersole, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, Austin O'Brien, and Roland Thomson. This was a sequel to 1991's My Girl.
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Plot
The story takes place in 1974, two years after the first film. It involves the main character, Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky), going to Los Angeles, California for the spring break to learn more about her deceased biological mother. First she was a sparky 11-year-old; now she is a lively yet more serious 13-year-old, "ready for her own apartment". By this time, her father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) is married to Shelly DeVoto (Jamie Lee Curtis), who is now pregnant, her Uncle Phil (Richard Masur) now lives in Los Angeles, and her grandmother has died. She still wears the mood ring retrieved for her by her late best friend Thomas J. (Macaulay Culkin), who died in the previous film.
Vada has her spring break coming up and her school assignment is to do an essay on someone she admires but has never met. She decides that she wants to do it on her mother but quickly realizes she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to L.A. to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother. Once there, she finds herself under the protection of Nick (Austin O'Brien), Phil's girlfriend's (Christine Ebersole) son, who at first is very annoyed at losing his own spring break to escort a "hick girl" around town. However, he soon becomes more involved in the difficult search. The relationship between them, which originally starts out as a reluctant one, slowly turns into something much stronger as she learns more about her mother. The two start supporting each other and experience first love along the way.
The movie includes a cappella performance of the Chaplin song "Smile" by Angeline Ball playing Vada's mother.
Cast
- Vada Margaret Sultenfuss - Anna Chlumsky
- Harry Sultenfuss - Dan Aykroyd
- Shelly DeVoto Sultenfuss - Jamie Lee Curtis
- Phil Sultenfuss - Richard Masur
- Rose Zsigmond - Christine Ebersole
- Nick Zsigmond - Austin O'Brien
Awards
For her performance, Chlumsky won a Young Artist Award for "Best Performance by a Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture"; Thomson and O'Brien were also nominated for Young Artist Awards for their roles.
Still My Girl
Still My Girl is the proposed third motion picture in the My Girl movie franchise, currently in development at Columbia Pictures. In a 2003 interview Dan Aykroyd had with United Kingdom talk show host Michael Parkinson, he stated that Columbia had an interest in getting this off the ground and strong interest in Anna Chlumsky returning to her role as Vada.[1] As of 2009, both Chlumsky and Aykroyd continue to be attached to the project.[2]
References
- ^ "Headlines: Still My Girl". Dark Horizons. March 6, 2003. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071015144956/http://darkhorizons.com/news03/030306.php. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
- ^ Morgan, K.C. (July 27, 2009). "My Girl Star: All Grown Up". FilmCrunch. http://movies.gearlive.com/movies/article/q107-my-girl-star-all-grown-up/. Retrieved August 6, 2009.
External links
Films directed by Howard Zieff 1970s 1980s 1990s My Girl (1991) · My Girl 2 (1994)Categories:- 1994 films
- American films
- English-language films
- Sequel films
- American comedy-drama films
- American coming-of-age films
- American romantic comedy films
- Films set in the 1970s
- Columbia Pictures films
- Imagine Entertainment films
- Pregnancy films
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