My Girl 2 is a 1994
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starring
Anna ChlumskyAnna Chlumsky is an American actress, born to Nancy and Frank Chlumsky. She is best-known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.-Career:...
,
Dan AykroydDaniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist...
,
Christine EbersoleChristine Ebersole is an American actress and singer.Ebersole was born in Winnetka, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School...
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Jamie Lee CurtisJamie Lee Curtis is an American actress. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres...
,
Richard MasurRichard D. Masur is an American actor who has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1995 to 1999. Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.Masur was born in New York City to a high school...
,
Austin O'BrienAustin O'Brien is an American actor. He may be best known for playing the co-lead Danny Madigan in the Arnold Schwarzenegger-movie Last Action Hero, followed by his turn into romance as Nick Zsigmond in My Girl 2, and a part in both The Lawnmower Man and its sequel.O'Brien was born in Eugene,...
, and Roland Thomson. This was a sequel to 1991's
My GirlMy Girl is a comedy-drama film released in 1991 that focuses on the coming-of-age of a young girl. It features Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut...
.
The plot takes place in 1974, two years after
My GirlMy Girl is a comedy-drama film released in 1991 that focuses on the coming-of-age of a young girl. It features Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut...
, and involves the main character, Vada Sultenfuss, going to Los Angeles for the spring break to learn more about her deceased biological mother. First she was a sparky 11-year-old full of "medical problems" (including a chicken bone in her throat).
My Girl 2 is a 1994
comedy-dramaComedy-drama, also called dramedy or seriocomedy, is a style of television, theatre and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content.-Theatre:...
movieFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
starring
Anna ChlumskyAnna Chlumsky is an American actress, born to Nancy and Frank Chlumsky. She is best-known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.-Career:...
,
Dan AykroydDaniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist...
,
Christine EbersoleChristine Ebersole is an American actress and singer.Ebersole was born in Winnetka, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School...
,
Jamie Lee CurtisJamie Lee Curtis is an American actress. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres...
,
Richard MasurRichard D. Masur is an American actor who has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1995 to 1999. Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.Masur was born in New York City to a high school...
,
Austin O'BrienAustin O'Brien is an American actor. He may be best known for playing the co-lead Danny Madigan in the Arnold Schwarzenegger-movie Last Action Hero, followed by his turn into romance as Nick Zsigmond in My Girl 2, and a part in both The Lawnmower Man and its sequel.O'Brien was born in Eugene,...
, and Roland Thomson. This was a sequel to 1991's
My GirlMy Girl is a comedy-drama film released in 1991 that focuses on the coming-of-age of a young girl. It features Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut...
.
Plot
The plot takes place in 1974, two years after
My GirlMy Girl is a comedy-drama film released in 1991 that focuses on the coming-of-age of a young girl. It features Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut...
, and involves the main character, Vada Sultenfuss, going to Los Angeles for the spring break to learn more about her deceased biological mother. First she was a sparky 11-year-old full of "medical problems" (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, her grandmother "Grandmoo Sultenfuss" is deceased and Shelley is expecting.
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
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performance of the Chaplin song "Smile" by
Angeline BallAngeline Ball is an award-winning Irish actress who currently resides in London. Her breakthrough role came in 1991 when she starred alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher as back-up singer Imelda Quirke in Alan Parker's The Commitments.- Works :She has appeared in many Irish films...
playing Vada's mother.
Cast
- Vada Margaret Sultenfuss - Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky is an American actress, born to Nancy and Frank Chlumsky. She is best-known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.-Career:...
- Nick Zsigmond - Austin O'Brien
Austin O'Brien is an American actor. He may be best known for playing the co-lead Danny Madigan in the Arnold Schwarzenegger-movie Last Action Hero, followed by his turn into romance as Nick Zsigmond in My Girl 2, and a part in both The Lawnmower Man and its sequel.O'Brien was born in Eugene,...
- Phil Sultenfuss - Richard Masur
Richard D. Masur is an American actor who has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1995 to 1999. Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.Masur was born in New York City to a high school...
- Rose Zsigmond - Christine Ebersole
Christine Ebersole is an American actress and singer.Ebersole was born in Winnetka, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School...
- Harry Sultenfuss - Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist...
- Shelly Devoto Sultenfuss - Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres...
Almost all the cast from the original film reprise their roles, with the exceptions of
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, 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 AwardThe Young Artist Awards also known as the 'Hollywood Young Artist Award' are presented yearly by the Young Artist Foundation. Started in 1980 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press member Maureen Dragone, they were envisioned specifically as awards to be presented to talented young people in...
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
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movie franchise, currently in development at Columbia Pictures. In a 2003 interview
Dan AykroydDaniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist...
had with United Kingdom talk show host
Michael ParkinsonSir Michael Parkinson, CBE is an English broadcaster and journalist. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007.- Early life :...
, he stated that Columbia had an interest in getting this off the ground and strong interest in
Anna ChlumskyAnna Chlumsky is an American actress, born to Nancy and Frank Chlumsky. She is best-known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.-Career:...
returning to her role as Vada Sultenfuss. As of 2009, both Chlumsky and Aykroyd continue to be attached to the project.
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