When your Dad's an undertaker, your Mom's in heaven, and your Grandma's got a screw loose...it's good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy.

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...

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

L

Lara Steinick

Ronda

Kristian Truelsen

Charles

David Caprita

Ray

Jody Wilson

Mrs. Hunsaker

Linda Perri

Betty

N

Nancy L. Chlumsky

Jackie

G

Glenda Chism

Thomas J.'s Mother

B

Bill Cordell

Thomas J.'s Father

Ray Buktenica

Danny