My Girl (film)

My Girl
A girl holding her hand on her head and laughing, and a boy laughing in the background
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHoward Zieff
Written byLaurice Elehwany
Produced byBrian Grazer
Starring
CinematographyPaul Elliott
Edited byWendy Greene Bricmont
Music byJames Newton Howard
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • November 27, 1991 (1991-11-27)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$17 million[1]
Box office$121.5 million

My Girl is a 1991 American coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Laurice Elehwany, and starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, and Anna Chlumsky in her first role in a major motion picture. The film tells the story of an 11-year-old girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1972. The film's title refers to the classic 1964 song of the same name by The Temptations, which is also featured in the film's end credits. A book based on the film was written by Patricia Hermes.[2] The film grossed $121 million on a budget of $17 million. A sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.

  1. ^ "My Girl". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Hermes, Patricia; Elehwany, Laurice (1991). My Girl (FIRST EDITION 4th Printing ed.). New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0-671-75929-2.