MY GIRL Page #11

Synopsis: My Girl is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff and written by Laurice Elehwany. The film, starring Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut, depicts the coming-of-age of a young girl who faces many different emotional highs and lows. The film also stars Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. A book based on the script was written by Patricia Hermes in 1991. The film's sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
1991
102 min
1,656 Views


HARRY:

Want to what?

SHELLY:

Kiss me.

HARRY:

Yes.

SHELLY:

Good.

They then have a long kiss

SHELLY:

Good at kissing, and dancing, I'm very

optimistic.

They then kiss again, this time interrupted by the clock

cuckooing

HARRY:

I ahh, better go.

SHELLY:

It's only eight o'clock.

HARRY:

Goodnight Shelly.

SHELLY:

Goodnight.

Harry exits the camper followed by Shelly who stands at the

door

OUTSIDE CAMPER NIGHT, HARRY HAS JUST GOT OUT OF SHELLY'S

CAMPER:

SHELLY:

Well, I guess it's official we had a date,

maybe we can play bingo again sometime.

HARRY:

I'm tired of bingo, maybe we should try that

drive in of yours.

SHELLY:

Goodnight.

Harry waves

VADA'S ROOM

Vada finishes watching, and goes to bed

SUMMER WRITING CLASS DAY

MR. BIXLER

Before the class started, Ronda and Justin

wanted to lead the class in a group

meditation.

WOMAN:

Ooooh that's really cool.

JUSTIN:

Okay what we're gonna do is, send our vibes

out into the group.

Justin turns on some kind of tape deck which begins to play

weird music

RONDA:

Everybody hold hands, and close your eyes.

Relax your muscles and take deep breaths.

JUSTIN:

Now, try to feel what the other person is

feeling, without speaking any words, send out

your vibe, and receive the vibes around you at

the same time. Can you feel it?

RONDA:

Okay, open your eyes. What did everybody

feel?

GUY:

I felt Mrs. Hunsaker's strength.

OTHER GUY:

I can feel that Ronda is one with the Earth,

she's so cosmically in tune.

RONDA:

So right on, that's exactly what I sent out,

and I felt like, you were full of inner peace

and harmony.

MR. BIXLER

Vada, what did you feel.

VADA:

I felt Justin's hangnail.

JUSTIN:

No Vada, that's not what we're looking for, a

hangnail is insignificant. What's in my soul,

feel my aura.

VADA:

I don't think I'm allowed to.

JUSTIN:

I tell you what, let's try it again, hold

hands.

VADA'S THOUGHTS

Grammoo once had a hangnail on her big toe.

It got infected and traveled to her vocal

chords, it ruined her singing voice, I don't

think Grammoo thought it was insignificant.

VADA'S ROOM, VADA LYING ON BED THINKING

Vada gets out of bed and goes down corridor to see Grammoo,

she seats herself cross legged next to Grammoo on her bed

and takes her hands in an attempt to do some spiritual

healing

SUPERMARKET DAY, VADA AND HARRY ARE SHOPPING

HARRY:

Lettuce, watch out for the rust when you get

lettuce.

Suddenly Shelly appears behind them and calls out

SHELLY:

Hey, I thought I recognized you two, hi Vada.

VADA:

Hi.

HARRY:

I'm just picking some things up for the

barbecue.

SHELLY:

Yeah, me too, mind if I tag along?

HARRY:

Not at all. Lot of potatoes!

SHELLY:

It's for Shelly's famous potato salad.

HARRY:

I'm looking forward to that.

Vada, who is pushing the shopping trolley behind Harry and

Shelly, obviously does not like the idea of Harry & Shelly,

and she rams her cart into Harry

HARRY:

HEY, OUCH, damn it!! Vada, watch what you're

doing.

VADA:

Sorry.

SHELLY:

You know this is gonna be my first 4th of

July picnic in a long time.

HARRY:

Really?

VADA:

(picking up large can of

prunes)

Dad, didn't you say you needed prunes REAL

bad?

HARRY:

Ahh, Vada, just put anything you want in the

cart, anything at all.

(to Shelly)

I don't know what's gotten into her today.

Vada begins to throw cans of every description from the

shelf into the shopping trolley at regular intervals, not

giving a stuff what they contain

VADA'S THOUGHTS

I used to like to play with my Ken and Barbie

dolls, Ken was my favorite. Then one Christmas

I got them a camper, and all they wanted to do

was hang out in it by themselves. So I wasn't

too upset when they took that wrong turn and

went over a cliff.

CLOSE UP OF AMERICAN FLAG DAY, HARRY - PLAYING TUBA,

SHELLY, PHIL & VADA SINGING "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" AND

GRAMMOO STANDING NEXT TO THEM WATCHING

MUSTANG PULLS UP NEXT TO SHELLY'S CAMPER, IT STOPS AND TWO

MEN GET OUT:

HARRY COOKING MEAT PATTIES ON BARBECUE, WHICH ARE BEGINNING

TO LOOK CHARRED, PHIL IS STANDING NEXT TO HIM

PHIL:

Harry Harry Harry Harry Harry, I told you to

use fewer briquettes and now look what you've

done. You've cremated them.

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Laurice Elehwany

Laurice Elehwany Molinari, a veteran film and TV writer in Hollywood for over two decades, has penned over thirty scripts for various studios and networks. Her very first feature script, written while a fellow at the American Film Institute, became Columbia Picture’s critically acclaimed children’s classic, My Girl. She went on to pen The Brady Bunch Movie and The Amazing Panda Adventure. Laurice lives with her husband and two children in Los Angeles, the City of Angels, where her lifelong love for our heavenly guardians inspired her to write a book about them in the ETHER series. more…

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