My Girl

My Girl is a 1991 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Laurice Elehwany, and starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, and Anna Chlumsky in her first role in a major motion picture that tells the story of an 11-year-old girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1972. A book, based on the film, was written by Patricia Hermes. The film grossed $121,489,799 on a budget of $17 million. A sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.