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My Girl 2

My Girl 2

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

19946.01h 39m

Overview

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 realises 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.

Directed by Howard Zieff
Written by Laurice Elehwany, Janet Kovalcik
Produced by Brian Grazer
Box Office0Revenue: $28.0M

Top Cast

Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky

Vada Sultenfuss

Austin O'Brien

Austin O'Brien

Nick Zsigmond

Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd

Harry Sultenfuss

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis

Shelly Sultenfuss

Richard Masur

Richard Masur

Phil Sultenfuss

Christine Ebersole

Christine Ebersole

Rose Zsigmond

JD Souther

JD Souther

Jeffrey Pommeroy

Angeline Ball

Angeline Ball

Maggie Muldovan

Aubrey Morris

Aubrey Morris

Alfred Beidermeyer

Gerrit Graham

Gerrit Graham

Dr. Sam Helburn

Themes & Keywords

researchloss of loved oneholidaycousinunclespring

About My Girl 2

My Girl 2 is a comedy, family film released in 1994 exploring themes of research, loss of loved one, holiday, cousin, uncle, spring. Directed by Howard Zieff, it stars Anna Chlumsky, Austin O'Brien, Dan Aykroyd. 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 realises 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.

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