<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $17 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $59.5 million </Td> </Tr> <P> My Girl is a 1991 American comedy - drama film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Laurice Elehwany, starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, and Anna Chlumsky in her feature debut . It is a coming - of - age story of a young girl who faces many different emotional highs and lows during the summer of 1972 in suburban Pennsylvania . </P> <P> A book based on the script was written by Patricia Hermes in 1991 . The film's sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994 . </P>

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