TY - SER KW - teachers KW - students KW - hairdressers KW - poetry KW - death care industry AU - Laurice Elehwany AB - Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky), an 11-year-old tomboy, has been obsessed with death since her mother's passing. Her father (Dan Ackroyd) is the local undertaker and her best friend is an unpopular boy named Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). When Vada falls for her English teacher, she joins his poetry workshop in the summer of 1972 and begins to mature. C1 - 1972 C2 - unpublished C3 - Westmoreland County; Madison C4 - Coming-of-Age; Women’s; Children’s LA - English M3 - Screenplay N1 - The script is now held in Beverly Hills at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. N2 - Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky), an 11-year-old tomboy, has been obsessed with death since her mother's passing. Her father (Dan Ackroyd) is the local undertaker and her best friend is an unpopular boy named Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). When Vada falls for her English teacher, she joins his poetry workshop in the summer of 1972 and begins to mature. PY - 1991 RN - Laurice Elehwany (1965— ) is a screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles. EP - 118 p. TI - My Girl ER -