In November 1991, the warm nostalgic tone of the My Girl marketing, released just ahead Thanksgiving break, wooed us into believing the movie was just a sweet buddy film. The clips in trailer make the film seem so "small-town summer of 1972." Vada and Thomas J. ride their bikes around, saying all these funny, enjoyable lines. Even the soundtrack behind the preview is the chipper 1964 "My Girl" hit song by The Temptations. But all that was foolery.
Even when Thomas J. naively kicked that beehive, nothing tipped viewers off to what was coming. Soon enough, the bees were swirling and stinging him, but at the most, this would mean a scary hospitalization, right? Wrong.
And the My Girl creators weren't done yet either. Together with Vada, viewers must walk through devastation and grief. Moviegoers, too, sit on the stairs in Vada's house (also a funeral home), looking in at Thomas J. in his tiny coffin. When Vada approaches the open casket, bawling and saying the iconic line, “He can’t see without his glasses!” audiences were crushed right along with her. When poor broken Vada took off on that desperate, mad dash down the street, viewers wanted to make that same kind of exit from the theater. Get us out of here!
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While the movie wrecked young hearts, it was also so darn well done. The film builds a believable, cherished friendship. It taps into all the realness of growing up and being frustrated by our parents and confused by our feelings and the world.
Decades later, My Girl still occupies a unique place in pop culture—not just as a coming-of-age movie, but as one of the first times many young viewers learned how deeply a story could hurt. Memes and clips of the film, particularly the "Where is his glasses?" scene, pop up on TikTok and Instagram as viewers, now grown-ups, recall this early heartbreak.
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♬ sonido original - BombxelAlso, for anyone who was traumatized by the movie My Girl back in the '90s, the actor Macaulay Culkin, 45, is doing just fine. See? Here he is a few weeks ago with his longtime partner Brenda Song at a basketball game:
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Here's young Macaulay Culkin around the time he'd have been filming My Girl:
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And if you're glutton for punishment and want to rewatch the ending, here it is:
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