1991/11/27 (US) | Comedy, Drama
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...
Laurice Elehwany
Screenplay
Howard Zieff
Director
Anna Chlumsky
Vada Sultenfuss
Macaulay Culkin
Thomas J. Sennett
Dan Aykroyd
Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis
Shelly DeVoto
Richard Masur
Phil Sultenfuss
Griffin Dunne
Mr. Jake Bixler
Ann Nelson
Gramoo Sultenfuss
$ 17,000,000
$ 59,490,000
Released
Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr.
Executive Producer
Linda Allen
Set Decoration
David T. Friendly
Executive Producer
Brian Grazer
Producer
Wendy Greene Bricmont
Editor
James Newton Howard
Original Music Composer
Karen Patch
Costume Design