My Girl (1991)

Fag Hags don't exist in real life.

This movie is an abomination!

What canon?

How about “gay canon”.

Is that okay? Or no,

I always loved this movie and the surprisingly good sequel. I actually watched the sequel a lot more as a kid because escaping suburbia to 70’s California was very exciting to me and the sequel didn’t end with a traumatic death.

The funeral home scenes were filmed in my hometown.

The HBO series "Six Feet Under" wouldn't exist without "My Girl' as the template and yet that obvious inspiration has never been acknowledged. In many ways My Girl was more radical too, because it was not only about a quirky family living in a funeral home with lots of comic relief blended it but it was from the perspective of a child in that environment, with a morbid sense of humor at that. I think a lot of people tend to disregard the film because the kids are at the centre but it is actually more powerful than a lot of so called adult films dealing with the same themes.

In My Girl 2, Veda watches The Partridge Family. She also mentions them in the first movie.

On Six Feet Under, taking place 30 years later, Claire Fisher watches The Partridge Family after her dad dies in the pilot.

God bless DL for giving me an outlet for this nonsense.

Anna is very perceptive here about how she was able to give her performance during Mac's funeral scene.

[quote]Does anyone think this movie belongs in the queer canon?

My Girl is a frau movie. Almost as frau-y as Now And Then.

OP is clearly a pedophile if he thinks gay men have any interest in watching a tiny little shit like Mac.

r10 Mac's role in the movie represented gay boys.

Yuck. Gay boys for pedos to feast on. Disgusting. Are you Bryan Singer?

Anna acted circles around Macaulay in this movie. He was adorable but very wooden. She gave a great performance.

Remember the bees stung him to death? And then she freaks out that he doesn’t have his glasses on in the casket because she can’t see without his glasses? That made me sad as a gayling watching in 1991.

Great film, but there's nothing queer about it.

r15 that depends on your reading of queerness.

Only pedophiles love this film. No one normal can stand that lil turd Mac.

R17

Or maybe some people were born after 1946 and grew up with it.

i quite liked the sequel. Anna was very natural on screen. I just wish the plot had been more about her dealing with trauma over Thomas J's death instead of finding out about her mother, because the audience didn't really have the emotional investment with a character we had never seen.

R18 get off the site Mr NAMBLA. DL does not love pedophiles.

WTF, OP? Fuck off.

“Queer canon”

r21 WHAT? What did I say that was wrong :(

If there's one Anna Chlumsky that belongs in the queer canon it's Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain. That's the most unintentionally dykelicious teen movie I've ever seen.

[quote]that depends on your reading of queerness.

Gayness: nothing, no same sex romances

Queerness (yranny-ness and/or gayness) : no gayness and no trans stuff

r34 I thought the definition of queerness was things that defy convention.

R9 not a bad word said about NOW & THEN, if you please.

Christina Ricci was babydyke perfection in it. Yeah, ok, she kisses Devon Sawa, but she’s pissed off about it and a lot less into it than he is. She just wanted to play softball! (and good for her!) Rosie O. must have been so proud.

[quote] a boy and girl were portrayed as best friends, with the kind of dynamic many future gay men could relate to, considering that it was the independent thinking tomboy girls like Vada who were usually the only ones to befriend and understand us. The two children are also portrayed as precocious and intelligent beyond their years, making them somewhat non-conformist.

IMO this description more fits Corey Haim & Winona Ryder’s characters’ dynamic in LUCAS.

Not if queer means gay or trans. That would be queer as in "weird".