My Girl 2
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
Our read · My Girl 2 (1994) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of My Girl 2
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a thoughtful girl learning about her mother's life and herself.”
Skip it tonight — You want high energy or to avoid any emotional family loss themes.
The reading.
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