Released:
1991-11-27

Overview:
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...

Director:
Howard Zieff

Runtime:
1h 43min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Anna Chlumsky
  as
  Vada Sultenfuss
• 
  Macaulay Culkin
  as
  Thomas J. Sennett
• 
  Dan Aykroyd
  as
  Harry Sultenfuss
• 
  Jamie Lee Curtis
  as
  Shelly DeVoto
• 
  Richard Masur
  as
  Phil Sultenfuss