My Girl (1991)

You’ll find sunshine on a cloudy day with this bittersweet charmer focusing on the delicate relationship between a motherless 10-year-old girl (Anna Chlumsky) and a young boy (Macaulay Culkin). At the same time their friendship grows, so does the romance between the girl’s mortician father (Dan Aykroyd) and the free-spirited morgue beautician (Jamie Lee Curtis). Also stars Griffin Dunne, Richard Masur. 102 min. C/Rtg: PG

My Girl 2 (1994)

Now-teenaged Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is back, and feeling unwanted at home with her dad Harry (Dan Aykroyd) and new stepmom Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis) expecting a baby. She heads to Los Angeles to stay with her uncle Phil (Richard Masur) and find out more about her own mother and, with help from Phil’s girlfriend’s son (Austin O’Brien), discover revealing things about her family’s past. Fun follow-up co-stars Christine Ebersole, J.D. Souther, Gerrit Graham. 99 min. C/Rtg: PG

Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.