My Girl 2

My Girl 2
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Howard Zieff
Produced by	Brian Grazer Joseph M. Caracciolo David T. Friendly
Written by	Laurice Elehwany
Starring	Dan Aykroyd Jamie Lee Curtis Anna Chlumsky Austin O'Brien
Music by	Cliff Eidelman
Cinematography	Paul Elliott
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	February 11, 1994 (USA)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$17,359,799 US
Preceded by	My Girl

My Girl 2 is a 1994 comedy-drama movie 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.

Tagline

There's being a kid. There's being an adult. And then there's that year in between.

Plot

The plot takes place in 1974, two years after My Girl, and involves the main character, Vada Sultenfuss, going to Dallas for the spring break to learn more about her deceased biological mother. First she was a sparky 11-year-old full of "medical issues" (including a chicken bone in her throat). Now she is a lively yet more serious 13-year-old, "ready for her own apartment". By this time, Vada's father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) is married to Shelley Devoto (Jamie Lee Curtis), her Uncle Phil (Richard Masur) now lives in Los Angeles, CA, her grandmother "Grandmoo Sultenfuss" is dead and Shelley is pregnant.

Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has spring break 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 (Austin O'Brien), the son of Phil's girlfriend (Christine Ebersole), 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. He gets really annoyed of girls and on the other side Vada feels the same.

Movie includes an a cappella performance of the Chaplin song "Smile" by Angeline Ball playing Vada's mother.

Cast

• Vada Margaret Sultenfuss - Anna Chlumsky
• Nick Zsigmond - Austin O'Brien
• Phil Sultenfuss - Richard Masur
• Rose Zsigmond - Christine Ebersole
• Harry Sultenfuss - Dan Aykroyd
• Shelly Devoto Sultenfuss - Jamie Lee Curtis

Almost all the cast from the original film reprise their roles, with the exceptions of Macaulay Culkin, whose character had died in the first movie, and Ann Nelson (Grandmoo Sultenfuss) who died in 1992. Shelley mentions Grandmoo's passing in this film.

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.

Deleted scenes

One of the scenes deleted from the final cut of the film was the one showing Vada having her ears pierced. In the final cut, she is seen entering the shop where the piercing takes place, and then the next scene shows her walking down the street a few minutes later with pierced ears. During filming, a scene was shot showing the piercing taking place, but this was left out of the final version. When this scene was shot, it had to be captured in a single take, because Chlumsky (who, like Vada, didn't at the time have pierced ears) actually was having her ears pierced. Although this scene was left out of the final version, it did appear in some of the trailers for the film, and a still frame from it does appear on the packaging of the film soundtrack.

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 Sultenfuss.^[1] As of 2009, both Chlumsky and Aykroyd continue to be attached to the project.^[2]

References

External links

• My Girl 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• My Girl 2 script