My Girl 2 🎥 1994 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Vada Sultenfuss has matured from the 11-year-old hypochondriac in 1972 to a more serious teenager in early 1974. Her father Harry and his new wife Shelly DeVoto, whom he previously dated, are expecting a baby, and they all still live in the Sultenfuss funeral parlor in Madison, Pennsylvania. To accommodate the new baby, Vada moves into her late Gramoo’s old bedroom. She struggles with these adjustments, along with figuring boys out. A male schoolmate named Kevin Phillips seemingly likes her friend Judy, but Vada wonders if he likes her reciprocally. Both her father and Shelly unsuccessfully try to give her some advice regarding adolescent males.

For a school assignment to write an essay on someone she admires but has never met, Vada chooses to profile her deceased biological mother, Margaret Ann Muldovan, but has scant sources to go on, all confined to a small box. Among its contents are programs of plays her mother acted in, 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 go to Los Angeles during her spring break, where she can stay with her uncle Phil and do research on her mother, who lived in Los Angeles growing up.

Initially resistant, believing she is too young to be traveling by herself and fearing what might happen to her there, Harry lets Vada take the five-day trip. Upon arrival, Vada encounters an adolescent boy named Nick who picks her up on Phil’s behalf; he is the son of Phil’s girlfriend Rose Zsigmond, who operates a car repair shop where Phil is now a mechanic. Vada notices that her uncle has trouble with commitment, while he and Rose live together. Although initially annoyed about sacrificing his own spring break, Nick assists her with the difficult task of obtaining more information about her mother by taking her around the city.

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