In this sequel to “My Girl,” Vada Sultenfuss is struggling to know who she is. Her dad and her new step-mom, Shelly, are expecting a baby, and they are including her in the process. She gets along well with Shelly and she’s making new friends at school, but there’s still a huge piece of her missing – she knows very little about her birth mother, who died shortly after she was born.
When she gets the school assignment to write a paper about an important person who she’s never met, she decides this is the perfect time to learn more about her mother. But her dad’s not a great deal of help – they had a whirlwind courtship, were married right off, and then she passed away less than a year later. His collection of stories is small, at best.
Learning that her mother came from Los Angeles, Shelly has a great idea. Uncle Phil lives in L.A. now – Vada should go visit him and do some research while she’s out there. It’s almost time for Spring Break – perfect timing. It takes some convincing, but her father finally allows her to go.
She’s met on the other end by a boy about her same age, named Nick. He’s the son of Uncle Phil’s girlfriend, and they all live together in an apartment over the mechanic shop where Phil works. It’s all a little Bohemian, and Vada tries to convince her uncle that he should just marry the woman, but he’s not so sure until a smooth-talking doctor with a fancy car tries to pick up where he left off.
Nick goes with Vada to talk to her mother’s old friends. Along the way, they gather some information here and some information there, expanding the picture Vada has of her mother, until one piece nearly destroys her.
This was a cute movie, but part of the magic of “My Girl” was the relationship she had with Thomas Jay. With him no longer part of the story, it’s missing a certain element. The film is worth your time, though – just don’t expect it to be exactly the same as the first one.
This movie is rated PG.
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