Over & Overs: "My Girl"
Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 3:33PM Over & Overs is a series where we talk about movies we've watched countless times.
by Camila Henriques
I don't recall the first time I watched My Girl, but I do remember where I've seen it the most. This Howard Zieff-directed coming of age drama was a fixture on TV as I was growing up, and, for the past 25+ years, it has been for sure one of these films that becomes something new with every rewatch.
Probably best known for being Macaulay Culkin's first on-screen kiss, My Girl tells the story of Vada (Anna Chlumsky, in her breakout role), a 11 year old girl experiencing change in various ways whilst being surrounded by death: her widowed father falls in love again, her grandmother is in that there-but-not-there situation, and, of course, she goes through her first love - and heartbreak...