My Girl

I must admit this is the first of my 30 day challenges that I didn't completely plan out beforehand.  In the others I had my lists of 30 posts set out before hand and wrote each one about each Song / Movie etc as I went along.  This time round I hadn't done that.  This challenge was originally meant to run in March but I had a number of things come up that delayed it.  Eventually I just committed to doing it despite only having 6 titles.  I wasn't sure if I could make 30 but as I have went with the theme more and more movies and songs are coming back to me and popping up some that I haven't seen in years, and this is one of them.

My Girl was released in 1991, when I would have been all of 3 years old, so I doubt I actually saw it then.  I can't remember what age exactly but I know it was less than 11 owing to which house I know we lived in at the time.  I wasn't at all prepared for the movie and had no idea about what happens in it.  I really liked it until the point where little Thomas J played by Macaulay Culkin was attacked by a swarm of bees.  Thomas was allergic and the attack was fatal.  The movie focuses on the friendship that grows between Vada and Thomas and the scenes in which Vada finds out the truth about what happened and Thomas J's funeral scene where she is overcome with emotion still make me well up.

For a long time I was petrified of bees and wasps and to this day I still quite unnerved by both, thanks in part to this movie affecting me so as a child.  I attach below the trailer of the movie.  I hope you enjoy