7.4 / 10
(2,097 votes)
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...
United States of America
Comedy,
Drama
103 minutes
1991
Howard Zieff
Columbia Pictures,
Imagine Entertainment
$17,000,000
$59,490,000
1989
6.3
1997
7.5
2000
6.3
1995
6.3
2004
5.8
2007
6.7
2008
7.3
2008
7.5
1974
6.7
2008
6.9
1990
3.0
2023
7.0
1984
3.5
2009
5.9
1986
7.7
1978
6.8
1973
7.6
1963
7.6
2006
6.1
2023
5.1