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Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment 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 LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother. Once in LA, she finds herself under the protection of Nick, the son of Phil's girlfriend, who at first is very annoyed at losing his holidays to escort a hick *girl* around town. However, he soon becomes more involved in the difficult search. Written by
Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au>
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There's being a kid. There's being an adult. And then there's that year in between.
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A reference is made to one-child-per-family policy in China, which in reality was introduced in 1978 - four years after the time in which the movie takes place.
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Vada Sultenfuss:
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narration to audience]
I remember before I was born, wounded up like a fur ball in the highly overrated fetal position, luckily I'm not claustrophobic, but on rainy days I still felt a tightness in my left shoulder. So now that my stepmother's pregnant, I understand what the baby's going through, and I'm not jealous at all, really, not at all.
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My Girl (1991)
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Soundtracks
"OUR HOUSE"
Written by
Graham Nash
Performed by
Crosby Stills Nash & Young (as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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The sequel nobody asked for: Anna Chlumsky reprising her role as inquisitive Pennsylvania pre-teen Vada Sultenfuss from 1991's "My Girl". Spurred on by a writing assignment in English class, and with a little help from her overly-friendly stepmother, Chlumsky's Vada flies to Los Angeles by herself to hopefully learn more about her mother--a budding actress who died in childbirth--from her uncle. Excruciatingly thin coming-of-age nonsense, unconvincingly set in the 1970s, hopes to pick up the slack (and wow sixth-grade girls) by introducing shaggy-haired Austin O'Brien as a potential love-interest for Anna (her previous puppy love amour, Macaulay Culkin, having expired in the first installment). But the eyeball-rolling O'Brien and the judgmental, condescending Chlumsky are a dismaying pair--neither child has a lot on their mind--while the period rock songs on the soundtrack (some of them generic) fail to provide the nostalgic lift intended. * from ****