My Girl 2
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| Directed by | Howard Zieff |
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Brian Grazer Joseph M. Caracciolo David T. Friendly |
| Written by | Laurice Elehwany (characters) Janet Kovalcik |
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| Narrated by | Anna Chlumsky |
| Music by | Cliff Eidelman |
| Cinematography | Paul Elliott |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $17,359,799 |
My Girl 2 is a 1994 American comedy-drama film and a sequel to My Girl (1991) starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Christine Ebersole, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, and Austin O'Brien.
A book based on the script was written by Patricia Hermes in 1994.
Set nearly two years after the first film, in the spring of 1974, Vada Sultenfuss (Chlumsky) sets out on a quest to learn more about her deceased biological mother. She has matured over the past year and a half (since the first film), going from the spunky, eleven-year-old hypochondriac to a lively, yet more serious teenager seeking independence. Her father, Harry (Aykroyd), has since married Shelly DeVoto (Curtis), whom he dated in the first film; and they are expecting a baby. They still live in the Sultenfuss' funeral home in Madison, Pennsylvania, while her Uncle Phil (Masur) has moved to Los Angeles, where he now works as a mechanic. Gramoo, Vada's grandmother, has since died; and she still wears the mood ring that her late best friend Thomas J. died while retrieving for her.
To accommodate the new baby, Vada moves out of her bedroom and into Gramoo's old room, which has been renovated, and it brings further problems with adjustment. Vada even thinks about getting her own apartment while spending a night out with her father.
Vada is given a school assignment to write an essay on someone she admires but has never met. She decides to write about her mother but has few sources to go on, which are all confined in a small box. Among its contents are programs of plays her mother was in (she was an aspiring actress), a passport, and a mystery paper bag with a date scribbled on it. Vada expresses her desire to travel someday, so Shelly concocts a plan for her to travel to Los Angeles during her spring break, where she can stay with her Uncle Phil and do research on her mother, who lived in L.A. growing up. Harry does not go along with the idea, believing Vada is too young to be traveling by herself, and fearing what might happen to her in L.A. Eventually, he lets her take the five-day trip.
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