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...

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Cast

Anna Chlumsky

Vada Sultenfuss

Macaulay Culkin

Thomas J. Sennett

Dan Aykroyd

Harry Sultenfuss

Jamie Lee Curtis

Shelly DeVoto

Richard Masur

Phil Sultenfuss

Griffin Dunne

Mr. Jake Bixler

Ann Nelson

Gramoo Sultenfuss

Peter Michael Goetz

Dr. Welty

Jane Hallaren

Nurse Randall

Anthony R. Jones

Arthur

Tom Villard

Justin

Kristian Truelsen

Charles