I certainly remember this one as a kid, it was the movie where Macaulay Culkin dies- enough to shock any Home Alone fan. My Girl is, in fact, generally very concerned with death, as its main character Vada is an 11-year-old girl who has the misfortune of growing up in a funeral parlour. Unsurprisingly, she is not a normal little girl.
The movie begins with Vada announcing she has cancer to her father, who ignores it. That's dark. She constantly thinks she's ill; she is obsessed with her own mortality. She portrays her grandmother as a zombie to scare some other kids. On the plus side, she loves reading and writing, much like I did. (I never read War and Peace, though.) When she joins a writing class, it's amusingly awkward when a woman reads a story inappropriate for an 11-year-old to hear. It's followed immediately by an immature ode to ice cream.
I was surprised that this movie's IMDb rating is in the 6s, as people seem to love this movie. I don't think I fully understood it as a kid, but it is a sweet movie, with satisfying writing and performances.
The movie begins with Vada announcing she has cancer to her father, who ignores it. That's dark. She constantly thinks she's ill; she is obsessed with her own mortality. She portrays her grandmother as a zombie to scare some other kids. On the plus side, she loves reading and writing, much like I did. (I never read War and Peace, though.) When she joins a writing class, it's amusingly awkward when a woman reads a story inappropriate for an 11-year-old to hear. It's followed immediately by an immature ode to ice cream.
I was surprised that this movie's IMDb rating is in the 6s, as people seem to love this movie. I don't think I fully understood it as a kid, but it is a sweet movie, with satisfying writing and performances.