When your Dad's an undertaker, your Mom's in heaven, and your Grandma's got a screw loose...it's good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy.
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, contemplative and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Anna ChlumskyVada Sultenfuss
- Macaulay CulkinThomas J. Sennett
- Dan AykroydHarry Sultenfuss
- Jamie Lee CurtisShelly DeVoto
- Richard MasurPhil Sultenfuss
- Griffin DunneMr. Jake Bixler
- Ann NelsonGramoo Sultenfuss
- Peter Michael GoetzDr. Welty
- Jane HallarenNurse Randall
- Anthony R. JonesArthur
Crew
- Howard ZieffDirector
- Laurice ElehwanyScreenplay
- Paul ElliottDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Wendy Greene BricmontEditor
- Brian GrazerProducer
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