My Girl
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
It's the movie traumatized a generation of children. Although it may not pack the same emotional punch now that we're all grown up, there's still a lot to love about My Girl.
Topics include: how difficult it was to come up with a title for this movie and some of the more unusual options they considered, how reading the novelization first sort of ruined Chris' first viewing of this, a score so overbearing even Donna noticed it, the number of subplots that don't really go anywhere, why Richard Masur is the low key MVP of this film, how each of us reacted to the ending as kids, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember my girl? |
| 0:06.5 | Hello and welcome Hey, Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the roast-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.4 | And today we're revisiting My Girl. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah. and I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting My Girl. Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, McCauley Culkin, and introducing Anna Klmsky in Born Johndest. |
| 1:05.2 | Yep, that was the original title of this film. |
| 1:08.5 | To be fair, even when Imagine Entertainment bought the rights to the script, they knew they |
| 1:12.6 | were never going to release a movie with that title. |
| 1:15.5 | But they had a surprisingly difficult time coming up with other options. |
| 1:19.2 | In fact, they wound up offering a $500 prize to whoever came up with the best alternative. |
| 1:24.6 | This contest was open to anyone at the company. |
| 1:27.4 | Some of the frontrunners were |
| 1:28.7 | Morning Glory, that's M-O-U-R-N, in lieu of flowers, dearly departed, Veda, with an exclamation point, |
| 1:40.6 | and the one they eventually settled on, I am woman. |
| 1:46.0 | Producer Brian Grazer was the one who eventually made the final switch to my girl, |
| 1:49.8 | which is simultaneously just as appropriate and just as arbitrary as a lot of the others. |
| 1:54.9 | But it's definitely the one that looks best on a poster, and it gave them a catchy song |
| 1:59.0 | to play over the end credits. |
| 2:02.0 | And that indecision over the film's identity is maybe actually pretty fitting for a coming-of-age story. The moment where |
| 2:07.1 | the protective shield of childhood innocence starts getting punctured by questions about life |
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