My Girl

• Comedy
• Drama

In the humid summer of 1972, *My Girl* unfolds a uniquely tender and heartbreaking story of eleven-year-old Vada, navigating an unusual obsession with mortality amidst the backdrop of her father's funeral home. Her world, steeped in the rituals of loss, is disrupted by the arrival of a vibrant, newly-married woman and a blossoming, awkward friendship with a perpetually cautious boy, Thomas J. The film delicately balances comedic moments born from childhood anxieties with a quietly melancholic exploration of grief, first love, and the unsettling realities of change. It's not a story about avoiding sadness, but about learning to live *with* it, and confronting the poignant realization that even the most cherished connections are fragile and impermanent, culminating in a loss that reframes innocence and launches Vada towards an accelerated, though deeply felt, coming-of-age.