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...
Details
- Director
- Howard Zieff
- Writer
- Laurice Elehwany
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $17,000,000
Cast
Ann Nelson
Anna Chlumsky
Anthony R. Jones
Dan Aykroyd
Griffin Dunne
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jane Hallaren
Macaulay Culkin
Peter Michael Goetz
Richard Masur
Keywords
1970s
beehive
camper
childhood crush
cosmetologist
death
death in childbirth
father daughter relationship
friendship
funeral parlor
makeup artist
neighbor
remarriage
tuba
writing workshop
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