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…
Genre: Comedy, Drama Actors: Ann Nelson, Anna Chlumsky, Anthony Giaimo, Anthony R. Jones, Bill Cordell, Dan Aykroyd, David Caprita, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Glenda Chism, Griffin Dunne, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Hallaren, Jody Wilson, Kristian Truelsen, Lara Steinick, Linda Perri, Macaulay Culkin, Nancy L. Chlumsky, Peter Michael Goetz, Ray Buktenica, Richard Masur, Shane Obedzinski, Tom Villard Directors: Howard Zieff Production: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment