Movie Info :  

Released : 27 November 1991 (USA)  Length : 102 min Genre : Comedy, Drama, Family

A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend.

Director:  Howard Zieff

Writer:  Laurice Elehwany

Stars:  Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd

Storyline

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, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlor, and begins to fall in love with her, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.