The read
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do. The highest scoring of the 2 titles in its series.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes57%
Metacritic56/100
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
2,369 audience votes
Key crew
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Howard ZieffDirector
- Laurice ElehwanyScreenplay
Cast
- Anna ChlumskyVada Sultenfuss
- Macaulay CulkinThomas J. Sennett
- Dan AykroydHarry Sultenfuss
- Jamie Lee CurtisShelly DeVoto
- Richard MasurPhil Sultenfuss
- Griffin DunneMr. Jake Bixler
- Ann NelsonGramoo Sultenfuss
- Peter Michael GoetzDr. Welty
- Jane HallarenNurse Randall
- Anthony R. JonesArthur
- Tom VillardJustin
- Lara SteinickRonda
Stills
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Themes
friendship1970smelancholybeehiveremarriageneighbordeathwriting workshopmakeup artistcampercosmetologistdeath in childbirth