'''My Girl''' (1991) introduces Annette Chlumsky as Vada, a precocious 11-year-old girl who can't get any normal adult attention from her (widowed?) father ([[Dan Akroyd]]) or (senile?) grandmother. She refuses to play with girls her own age, preferring the company of boys or unrelated adults. In the opening act of the movie, she fakes being sick (see [[hypochondriac]] and teases some little boys of her acquaintance by pretending her grandmother is a not-quite-dead corpse. She gets more attention from her father's assistant.
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'''My Girl''' (1991) introduces Annette Chlumsky as Vada, a precocious 11-year-old girl who can't get any normal adult attention from her (widowed?) undertaker father ([[Dan Akroyd]]) or (senile?) grandmother. She refuses to play with girls her own age, preferring the company of boys or unrelated adults. In the opening act of the movie, she fakes being sick (see [[hypochondriac]] and teases some little boys of her acquaintance by pretending her grandmother is a not-quite-dead corpse. She gets more attention from her father's assistant.
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A makeup artist starts working for her father and takes an interest in Vada.
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Shelley, a divorced makeup artist who wears short dresses, starts working for her father and takes an interest in Vada.