This movie absolutely WRECKED an entire generation. None of us were prepared! The movie trailer set us up for a heartwarming tale of childhood romance and fun summer small town shenanigans. The devastation of "he can't see without his glasses" will be felt in echoes for all time. Welcome to the club, lol.
The part where she says "where's his glasses, he can't see without his glasses" and near the end where she tells Thomas Jay's mom "my mother will take care of him" always ways gets me.
For me it's when his mom gives Vaeda the ring. His last moments were spent trying to do something nice for a friend. From my perspective, when someone dies doing something beautiful, there is less reason to mourn. Still hurts, just helps it to hurt less. I was gonna use the word "stings" in place of "hurts", but I thought... maybe that's in bad taste.
The thing I like most about your reactions is that they are real and they are from the heart. At 76 I don't often get to cry with someone else. Thank you for being unpretentious enough to show your feelings.
It is depressing to see so many EMOTIONAL WOMEN though in their reaction channels ... because that is the biggest problem of todays western society: People making DECISIONS BASED UPON EMOTIONS. Many men are equally guilty, because lots of preachers are men and religion is also based upon EMOTIONAL CLAIMS THAT CAN NOT BE DISPROVEN ... but there is a reason why men dominate STEM, where LOGIC and REASONING are required.
I agree, Michael. I'm 16 years old and I often feel deepcut morosity when watching a sad movie. However, I've never produced complete tears for a film. I sort of live them through other people watching the films. It's a beautiful thing. Ashley is a wonderful reactor.
"My Girl 2" is definitely worth a watch. It's not as tear-jerking as the first, but it certainly tugs at your heartstrings. The story surrounds Vada's mother, so you know its going to be heartwarming.
Agreed! I bawled like a baby when I saw it in the theater, even though a friend of mine Saw the movie before me and accidentally spoiled the ending before I went to go see the movie, and I still ball like a baby now. Just hearing those two lions get me emotional.
As a grown ass man ... this movie still kills me. I was 11 when this came out, so right around the same age as the characters. So that was tough. And I decided to watch this again a year or so ago. It broke me. The emotional stars must have been in alignment that day because all the feels. Every. Single. One. Just surged right on out of my eye holes. When you mentioned this in your "feel good Valentines month" list, I was very VERY nervous and immediately knew you had no idea what was coming.
Ashleigh, please understand that this is why your viewers and subscribers love you so much! You are authentic. Your reactions are real and emotionally satisfying. Do not ever apologize when your reactions do not meet expectations, you are one of the few reactors on RUclips that helps me know that you are really experiences these movies! Bless you for everything that you are and know that we viewers love you and support you in every way that we can. You are truly special, whether you believe are not!
@@philrob1978 Ya bingo. Mean this in the nicest possible way...more movies that make Ash cry! It's just real! Never apologize for feeling, Ashleigh. Your reactions are great and cathartic.
The teacher was the dead friend in An American Werewolf In London. I really appreciated how they handled her 1st crush being her teacher, because that's very common and normal, and this movie is as much about her coming of age, as it is about how adults learn to navigate these growing little humans who don't really have filters or experience in dealing with their own emotions
He was longtime friends with Carrie Fisher since they were teenagers and each were the other's first.....y'know. I learned that in the documentary about her and her mom Debbie Reynolds that came out after they died.
I saw this when i was young and lost it when she said “he cant see without his glasses”. This is a forgotten fantastic movie. Quality child actors, great script, great in so many ways.
@@matsug5704 honestly they foreshadowed that when the movie said he as allergic to the bees. It hit when she mentioned the glasses. I was shocked he died as he was blowing up from Home Alone although he wasnt a household name when this was being made.
My Girl 2, while not on par with this one, is still worth a watch. It deals a lot with Veda exploring her mother’s history while also dealing with an expanding/changing family at home and Veda entering her teen years.
I remember how my mother brought this movie home for a cute and relaxed DVD night with my sister and like 8 year old me... Let's just say the night ended very quiet and with a lot of tears, I think I only saw this once. We don't let my mother pick movies since then.
I rented Bridge to Terabithia to take to my mom's house for movie night as we both thought it was a fantasy movie like The Spiderwick Chronicles or something. After lots of tissues we agreed to never watch that again.
Well the first half of the movie makes you think you're getting a coming of age story and maybe a first romance thing and then... WHAM. Dead Thomas Jay.
I went to this in theaters when it came out. I was 8... Imagine how much I cried! NO ONE expected Macaulay would die. Honestly, I think it's why I love to cry at movies so much as an adult. Honestly, thank you for sharing these moments with us. ❤️
Ask a Mortician did a PRICELESS reaction to this recently. She doesn't do a lot of reaction videos, but this one has been making the rounds of reaction channels lately and she joined in. She had seen it before, but not since becoming a mortician and so she reviewed it from that angle. She's very funny and wholesome.
Yeah, that one made me a blubbering mess just now. It made me think of when my 21 year old cousin died in a car accident back in 2003 and my stepdad died of cancer 3 days later. My mom was like, she's not alone now (my cousin). He (my stepdad) will look after her. Now I'm a sobbing, stuffy mess.
He was watching a show called " All In The Family" which stars Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker. Fun fact: the chair from All in the Family is in the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
So the thing about "My Girl" is that this was the Macaulay Culkin movie that just happened to be released in the immediate wake of "Home Alone". "Home Alone" was insanely popular. It spent twelve months at number one, and it was even was the highest-grossing live-action comedy *of all time* for many years. It was such a cultural phenomenon, nearly everyone I knew wanted to see "My Girl" as soon as possible simply because "Mac's back!" As you might have noticed, right from the start, there are quite a few significant differences in mood and tone between "Home Alone" and "My Girl"... 😭 I was not prepared. My friends (who on the whole liked "Home Alone" way more than I did) were REALLY not prepared. Honestly, I don't think anyone was prepared, and That Ending remains one of the most notoriously devastating pop culture moments of the time.
The film caused controversy because of What happened to his character and reportedly, there were so many little girls crying in the theater that is caused some parents dicomfort. LOL
Even without that context this movie was devaststing, I watched it before Home Alone as a kid (I was born the early 2000s) at my grandma's house, I only got to see half of the movie, and the funeral scene got burned into my young brain I forgot what the movie was called (since I was very young) but I always remembered that specific scene.
Every pre teen girl in 1991 completely lost it over "He can't see without his glasses"...and every boy lost it over "I order you not to go" (Terminator 2)...also 06:41 that is "All in the Family"
I'm a old man nowadays, but I cried at 'He can't see without his glasses" part when I first saw it in the theater, and still every time I watch it since to this day.
"He can't see without his glasses" gets me every time. Imagine me as a kid watching this cause I loved Macaulay Culkin thanks to Home Alone and expecting a sweet happy kids movie. Of course I was completely crushed when he died and I didn't watch this movie again until many years later 😭😭😭
@@Nightroadtube even when watching it again, it's very easy to get teary eyed. Took me some time to watch it again but I don't see myself watching it on a regular basis unless I need a good cry.
Saw this at the theater when it came out. Didn't cry until "he can't see without his glasses" and, like you, had a hard time stopping. I still cry at that part. Jamie Leigh & Dan were together in Trading Places, which I'm sure you watched but forgot.
To all the big Ashleigh fans out there....when you recommend a movie to her, NEVER tell her its going to make her cry...or make her super happy, or whatever emotion you think the movie evokes. As she said, that puts pressure on her to react a certain way, and it also diminishes the true emotional reaction. So, if you want to recommend My Girl, for instance, just tell her its a great movie about friendship and learning the lessons of growing up.
I've seen this film with my class in 2nd grade back in '92. Fell in love with Vada and her many quirks immediately, laughed hard at Grandma's funeral performance (it's the old lady from Airplane!) and then the movie broke me hard. Seeing such a serious film as an 8 year old changed my life. Now I'm 38 and I'm still tearing up...
The teacher is Griffin Dunne. His dad was Dominick Dunne, a writer, investigative journalist, and producer (I remember him best as writing true crime books about wealthy, high society people who committed murder). His sister was Dominique Dunne, the older sister in Poltergeist, who was murdered in 1982 by an ex boyfriend. One of my favorite Griffin Dunne movies is After Hours (1985).
I loved him in Johnny dangerously. Laughed so hard i was literally in the floor at the theater while everyone was wondering what busted my funny bone ----- honestly - is when he was using the pricing guns on the puppies. I lost it
I was a huge fan of After Hours, as I was bartending downtown in my early 20's when it was first released. And a few years later i read Dommenick Dunne's novel People Like Us for the first (of many) times and his regular columns in Vanity Fair. Have read most of his books since then.
I'm sitting here bawling like a baby this is one movie I have never rewatched since the first time. I knew this would happen. Just remember a good cry now and then can be cathartic.
There are a couple of movies I never saw again after the first time because I cried so hard I ended up with a headache). One of the others is Shindler's List. Fantastically made movie but I walked out of the theater with a migraine. I will watch reactors but will never watch them in their entirety again - I still cry but not so hard for so long.
Yeah I think it's so interesting that you picked two very similar movies to review back to back, not similar stories exactly, but dealing with themes of childhood friendships, coming of age, and coping with death/mortality. Both excellent films in their own right, but definitely not the typical romance theme for Valentine's, and I think that's refreshing actually. I'm always glad when you get to watch a really good movie, even if it doesn't necessarily fit whatever season or holiday we're in. I remember seeing this in the theater when I was a teen, it is the first time I ever cried at a movie, there was not a single dry eye in the room. "He needs his glasses" -- the line that scarred a generation. 😆😭 Loved your reaction as always, hope you never feel pressure to react in any way other than what you truly feel. I would not have thought any less of you had you not cried. 💗 No one should be criticizing your reactions, we know and appreciate your authenticity always. Anyway, thanks for this beautiful reaction, Ashleigh. Happy almost Valentine's Day! 💕
"I got a tear running down my titties." Ha ha, Ash I swear, if I ever attempt to write another movie script, I am gonna have to base one of the characters on you.
I know Ashleigh reacts to older movies, but I would love to see her watch "Everything Everywhere All At Once", if only for her reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis' scenes (but also because its one of the best movies I've seen in years).
One of the best movies I've ever seen period. It made me have an emotional reaction to a rock. An effing rock. I haven't recommend a movie to people as enthusiastically since Captain Fantastic.
This movie holds such a special place in my heart. My cousin owned a funeral home and my Dad used to help out with maintenance and stuff once in a while. It was a huge old place and there were many afternoons I would go after school to wait for my Dad. I would sit in the viewing room and do my homework. It was so calm and quiet. You have more to fear from the living than the dead. My cousins and I would also slide down the banisters from the apartment upstairs to the downstairs office! It was a spiral one! So fun! 😂
"Where's his glasses, he can't see without his glasses!" gets me everytime. I've seen this movie so many times since it came out, and it always makes me cry my eyes out.
Ashleigh, I am so glad you told us well in advance that you were going to watch this so I could prepare myself emotionally to be able to watch it today without having a panic attack. This is such a powerful movie, and deserved much more notoriety than it received. This movie does the best job of lulling you into the happiness and silliness until .... it mule kicks you right in the heart and then pumps acid into that open wound. I have never met anyone who was prepared going into this movie for the first time.
Having been an Ashleigh fan for a long time, I've seen what makes her cry. (Which are pretty much the things that make me cry, which is one reason I'm a fan.) And the moment I saw this video, and saw she reacted to this movie, I actually yelled "DAMN, girl! What are you doing??" 😱
I was so obsessed with this movie back then. My best friend was forced to watch me acting scenes out of the movie. The poor thing, what a patience! 😅 We were actually watching the movie together at the Cinema. And the minute I could get it on VHS I taped the audio with my cassette recorder and listened to it a hundred times... Crazy, but it comforted me and distracted me from other things in my life.
I've watched this movie several times so I fast-forward to the end before the bee attack to watch Ashleigh's reaction. It still gets me every time from the moment Vada approaches Thomas Jay's coffin. You feel you're fighting back the tears and then she starts talking to him and finally "where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!!"
the child actors in this did such a good job. this movie broke me when i watched this growing up but it's such an important movie epsecially for kids to teach them about life. such a good movie
Child Actors tend to come in generations, not just because of talent, but because of material. This movie is *great* material. It's the same reason that everything with McKenna Grace is fire. She's an intensely talented actress, but the roles are fantastic as well. There are a lot of actors who were placed solely in child focused material and they can come off as kinda ehhhh. In the 80s and 90s though you had kid actors being kids in stuff that was adult fare, or kid focused but with adult layers. I haven't seen that much after the turn of the millennium until recently.
once again Ashleigh proves why she is my favorite RUclips reactor. Ashleigh, You go into these movies honestly, the way we did when we saw them in the theaters. You know a little bit from the poster, a little background from pop culture which is going to be similar to what we saw in really basic trailers. and you react with humor and compassion and anger and joy - and occasionally in movies like this, with tears. and always commentary that we love. I just knew that this movie was going to blindside you, but you stuck it out and reminded us why we go to the movies, and why we want your channel!
I loved the TV show "This Is Us." The teacher in "My Girl" had a role in "This Is Us" and it took SO long to know that the parts were played by the same actor.
I had never cried at a movie before I watched this. I had made it through Ghost, and Always sitting in the theatre beside friends who cried. This one though. It destroyed me. I was such a blubbering mess that the woman sitting in front of me turned and asked me if I was okay. I can laugh now, but then I usually start to cry again just thinking about it.
Just found your channel (beyond psyched for your Buffy journey). This movie as a kid broke me...then I watched it again a year or so ago, and yeah, still broke me. Such a great movie and none of us knew from the trailers that ending was coming. Was marketed as a coming of age comedy romp. If we only knew...
19:34 Hey, Ashleigh, interesting fact about that kissing scene with Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin. That scene, actually won them the first MTV movie award for "Best Kiss," and Anna Chlumsky said in her acceptance speech, "That's My First Kiss And I Won An Award For It"
you should DEFINITELY give My Girl 2 a watch. it’s just as good as the first, imo, and explores how Veda handles her teen years. also, you didn’t disappoint with this reaction Ashleigh! thanks for the reaction and the cry ❤
"I got tears running down my titties." Iconic line I was kinda surprised you didn't recognize 'All In the Family' (the show they were watching), I think you'd like it. 'Maude' was a spin-off from it too.
It’s nice to see Dan and Jamie paired up again (after Trading Places). This was one of my favorites back when it came out but I have a hard time watching it because it has such sad subjects. Can’t wait to see you react to The Color Purple. Such a good film!!
I watched this when it was released in theaters. Tears were pouring down my face. I was trying so hard to cry quietly in this theater full of people. "He can't see without his glasses!" I sobbed out loud. Blubbering sobs. My Girl 2 isn't nearly as brutal. I think you'll like it.
You get so emotionally invested in your movies, and it shows you have a big and tender heart. Don't ever apologize or feel weird or have any misgivings about it. It's real and it's beautiful, and so are you.
Here in Australia, Ashleigh, your videos don't drop till 2:00am, but you have no idea how much it is worth it to sit up to see you react to movies like these. February is going to be a heck of a month for you.
I forgot how big this movie was at the time. It is so adorable and then so sad. Grown ass men who had survived Nam bawled like babies during this movie. Don't worry about it, Ash. My Girl has been memory holed a bit but it was a huge in the theater and again on HBO and cable tv.
As soon as I saw you had reviewed this I just knew I’d be sobbing with you. Some movies have such an impact on you that you don’t forget them and this is one of them.
I saw this on RUclips, and my immediate reaction was "oh, no! Ashley!". Great reaction, as always, and your tears are exactly what the filmmakers intended. This one is a gut punch, but such a great film!
18:09 The Lindbergh Baby was the 20-month-old son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had successfully completed the first solo flight from the United States to Europe in 1927 and was considered a national hero, and his wife Anne. The child had been abducted right out of his crib one night in 1935, which prompted a furious public reaction and a nationwide search that brought the fledgling FBI to greater prominence. The child was later found murdered not far from home, his skull bashed in. This led to the trial of Richard Hauptmann, a neighbor of the Lindberghs and a German immigrant, for the kidnapping and the murder. The trial was front page news in virtually every newspaper in the country (of which there were many more than today), as well as radio news (TV hadn’t happened just yet). He was found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair, which was carried out in 1936.
This was the movie that turned 11 year old me into a movie buff. 32 years later and it's still so good. I was worried you'd not like it and just be distracted by Jamie looking gorgeous, but seeing you looking like Alice Cooper while heartbrokenly trying to sing along with the end credits..you got it (just like 11 year me back in 1991 did).
You should absolutely watch my girl 2! I’m torn between which one I love more because they’re equally good. The best part about it is while it has returning characters and also gets you all up in the feels, the story is completely different. This movie is a celebration of death while part 2 is a celebration of love. One of my favorite songs in the world, which I’d never heard before part 2, still brings a happy tear to my eye when I hear it because i associate it with part 2, a movie I watched when I was going through really hard times and it really helped. Would be thrilled if you watched part 2 some day.
"Though there may be clouds in the sky, youll get by, smile though your heart is aching smile even though its breaking..." Dude just writing the lyrics makes me tear up. That scene with Vada and the projector in my girl 2 is worth watching the whole movie for!
This movie wrecked me! I was maybe a couple years older than the kids in this when I saw it and I cried so hard. It was so good but but just hit so hard. Definitely in that top handful of movies where once I started crying I just couldn’t stop. Love this movie. My best friend’s mom always played the oldies station in her car and we used to sing along a bop to “my girl” but after this movie we would get teary eyed and our voices would start cracking if we tried to sing along to it. I can’t say it ruined the song, it just changed it’s association so profoundly. I don’t really remember what My Girl 2 was about but it’s a totally different emotion scape than this one. You’re absolutely right that this movie never needed a sequel, but if you wanted to know what happens next in Veda’s life that would be the only reason to watch it. I honestly think they made it to give emotional closure and kinda a “there, there, now. Veda is going to be okay and everything is going to be alright in the end” kind of pat on the back to all the people they emotionally destroyed with the first movie.
I watched this as a little kid so much and I loved it but it always made me cry more than any other movie. My uncle was a mortician and I wanted to be one so bad so I thought it was cool that she lived in a funeral home but the friendship/love story is what had me coming back again and again. Him going back and trying to get her ring and her crying over his casket are the scenes that get me every time. It’s the saddest movie I’ve ever seen but it’s such a great movie
I know sometimes these movies are hard to watch, I wanted to say thank you Ashleigh. As tough as they are I get to relive them through you, memories rush back, sad and happy. Some days i dont feel alive just walking through the tedium of life, but then I get to watch these with you and well feel alive again. Thanks!
I encourage you to really seek out what you love in this life and go after it, bit by bit, day by day, until you get back to the point where you feel alive all the time!
And co-starring Rob Reiner, director of "Stand By Me," which Ashleigh just reviewed last week -- as well as ex-husband of the late, great Penny Marshall! All sorts of nice "meta" connections!
Bless your funny kind heart. This film got me bad when I was a kid. I saw the thumbnail and automatically said out loud "Oh no......she's gonna watch My Girl".
I saw this movie with my mom dad and sister in theatres. The entire theatre was bawling their eyes out. I man an entire room full of ugly crying. I was little and i knew it was sad but I've never to this day expirienced that kinda situation.
The teacher was the lead in An American Werewolf in London. "I didn't know I needed to see her and Dan Aykroyd together." Didn't you see Trading Places?
Grown men were crying everywhere in the theatre when Macs death happens. And I did too when I rewatched it as a grown up. Theres a movie called Juice. And it always reminds me of Stand By Me. It's almost like an urbanized Hip Hop and Gangbanger version of Stand By Me.
Sometimes we all need a good cry, and coming from a 44 year old man right here, this one does it to me every time. Such a beautiful film all around. Sad, but so heartwarming and touching.
This movie absolutely WRECKED an entire generation. None of us were prepared! The movie trailer set us up for a heartwarming tale of childhood romance and fun summer small town shenanigans. The devastation of "he can't see without his glasses" will be felt in echoes for all time. Welcome to the club, lol.
The part where she says "where's his glasses, he can't see without his glasses" and near the end where she tells Thomas Jay's mom "my mother will take care of him" always ways gets me.
For me it's when his mom gives Vaeda the ring. His last moments were spent trying to do something nice for a friend. From my perspective, when someone dies doing something beautiful, there is less reason to mourn. Still hurts, just helps it to hurt less. I was gonna use the word "stings" in place of "hurts", but I thought... maybe that's in bad taste.
Saw this movie maybe 20 years ago, but These are exact the two scenes make me cry.
@@jackflash8218 yeah that part too. That whole scene and interaction with Thomas Jay's mom was like that.
@@Morris1581 man now I feel old. It was probably over 30 years ago when I saw this
@@JoeXTheXJuggalo1 yeah me too. Movie is from 1991 i think i saw it as the VHS Tape came out. Maybee 1993/4 i was 13/14 years old 🥴
I haven’t even started watching yet, and I already know that Ashleigh is not going to need a tissue, she’s going to need a whole sponge for this one.
I just got here and was coming to the comments to say that very thing....
as soon as I saw the thumbnail I was all oh sweetie you are so not ready for this one
yeah, I was saying this last week..
it's the only reason i'm watching
I agree...It's such a sad movie. 😢
The thing I like most about your reactions is that they are real and they are from the heart. At 76 I don't often get to cry with someone else. Thank you for being unpretentious enough to show your feelings.
It is depressing to see so many EMOTIONAL WOMEN though in their reaction channels ... because that is the biggest problem of todays western society: People making DECISIONS BASED UPON EMOTIONS.
Many men are equally guilty, because lots of preachers are men and religion is also based upon EMOTIONAL CLAIMS THAT CAN NOT BE DISPROVEN ... but there is a reason why men dominate STEM, where LOGIC and REASONING are required.
I agree, Michael. I'm 16 years old and I often feel deepcut morosity when watching a sad movie. However, I've never produced complete tears for a film. I sort of live them through other people watching the films. It's a beautiful thing. Ashley is a wonderful reactor.
"My Girl 2" is definitely worth a watch. It's not as tear-jerking as the first, but it certainly tugs at your heartstrings. The story surrounds Vada's mother, so you know its going to be heartwarming.
Agreed. It’s a great coming of age story. Definitely worth a watch. Great soundtrack too.
Yeah, it's really worth it!!! Till this day I remember the song Vada's mom sang, Smile, and it always makes me tear up a little...
I still need to watch it.
"Wanna go tree climbing Thomas J.?" and "Where are his glasses, he can't see without his glasses" gets me every time.
;_; ditto......
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Damn, I haven't even started the video and I already got tears in my eyes.
Even if I just watch my girl again for that exact scene, still bawling my eyes out over and over again
Agreed! I bawled like a baby when I saw it in the theater, even though a friend of mine Saw the movie before me and accidentally spoiled the ending before I went to go see the movie, and I still ball like a baby now. Just hearing those two lions get me emotional.
What about Thomas Jay’s parents’ reaction to Veda saying all that.
Last episode when Ashely said this sounded like a wholesome Valentines movie... Who else just cackled evilly?
I was like damn, they did you dirty on that poll lol
I know I did.
Me too!
I was like ooooo that's going to bee a video 😆
Heh.
I’m sorry but in the middle of all the sadness Ashleigh saying “I have a tear running down my titties” made me lose it lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Same!
Lucky tear.
I spit out my wine all over my shirt lol
I giggled when she said that. What makes it funny was I wasn't expecting her to say that.
That needs to be on a shirt or something
As a grown ass man ... this movie still kills me. I was 11 when this came out, so right around the same age as the characters. So that was tough. And I decided to watch this again a year or so ago. It broke me. The emotional stars must have been in alignment that day because all the feels. Every. Single. One. Just surged right on out of my eye holes. When you mentioned this in your "feel good Valentines month" list, I was very VERY nervous and immediately knew you had no idea what was coming.
Yep, I turned 11 in 1991, too, and saw this movie when it first came out on VHS tape. And Macaulay Culkin was my biggest celebrity crush, too.
Ashleigh, please understand that this is why your viewers and subscribers love you so much! You are authentic. Your reactions are real and emotionally satisfying. Do not ever apologize when your reactions do not meet expectations, you are one of the few reactors on RUclips that helps me know that you are really experiences these movies! Bless you for everything that you are and know that we viewers love you and support you in every way that we can. You are truly special, whether you believe are not!
+1, couldn't have put it better myself.
@@philrob1978 Ya bingo. Mean this in the nicest possible way...more movies that make Ash cry! It's just real! Never apologize for feeling, Ashleigh. Your reactions are great and cathartic.
So when my dad passed i made sure he had his glasses on because that scene where shes asking where Thomas J’s glasses are effected me so much
They buried my dad without his glasses and this was all I could think about at the viewing.
The teacher was the dead friend in An American Werewolf In London.
I really appreciated how they handled her 1st crush being her teacher, because that's very common and normal, and this movie is as much about her coming of age, as it is about how adults learn to navigate these growing little humans who don't really have filters or experience in dealing with their own emotions
Griffin Dunne is the actor
He was longtime friends with Carrie Fisher since they were teenagers and each were the other's first.....y'know. I learned that in the documentary about her and her mom Debbie Reynolds that came out after they died.
I love watching Griffin Dunne in Martin Scorsese's surreal After Hours (1985), a great dark comedy.
@@Mokkari77 Rest in peace Dominique Dunne, Carrie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds.
I thought that was *Jack!*
I saw this when i was young and lost it when she said “he cant see without his glasses”. This is a forgotten fantastic movie. Quality child actors, great script, great in so many ways.
That and the kid dying was the only two things I remembered from this movie, I was waaaay too young the first time I watched it.
@@matsug5704 honestly they foreshadowed that when the movie said he as allergic to the bees. It hit when she mentioned the glasses. I was shocked he died as he was blowing up from Home Alone although he wasnt a household name when this was being made.
Me too!!!
My favorite part of the movie is Vada comforting Thomas J’s mom by saying her mom would take care of him. ❤️😭❤😭
Ashley mentioned “My Girl” in the intro to last weeks “Stand By Me.” I knew she was in for it when I heard.
My Girl 2, while not on par with this one, is still worth a watch. It deals a lot with Veda exploring her mother’s history while also dealing with an expanding/changing family at home and Veda entering her teen years.
I agree. Worth the watch
agreed. looking back it's kind of strange for a drama to get a "part 2", but as I kid I didn't care. I loved both of them
Hard disagree. That kid who was in Last Action Hero ruins every scene he's in and he has the second most screen time.
While it doesn’t have the emotional punch this one has, I think it’s a better story overall.
Vada*
Ashleigh: "Are you sure you're allergic to everything?" "You wanna test it?"
*Knowing what happens*.....👀
I remember how my mother brought this movie home for a cute and relaxed DVD night with my sister and like 8 year old me... Let's just say the night ended very quiet and with a lot of tears, I think I only saw this once. We don't let my mother pick movies since then.
😂😂😂
Expectations: *reverted*
I rented Bridge to Terabithia to take to my mom's house for movie night as we both thought it was a fantasy movie like The Spiderwick Chronicles or something. After lots of tissues we agreed to never watch that again.
LMAO 😂
Well the first half of the movie makes you think you're getting a coming of age story and maybe a first romance thing and then... WHAM. Dead Thomas Jay.
I went to this in theaters when it came out. I was 8... Imagine how much I cried! NO ONE expected Macaulay would die. Honestly, I think it's why I love to cry at movies so much as an adult. Honestly, thank you for sharing these moments with us. ❤️
Ashleigh tearfully singing along with the titular song is so relatable
Ask a Mortician did a PRICELESS reaction to this recently. She doesn't do a lot of reaction videos, but this one has been making the rounds of reaction channels lately and she joined in. She had seen it before, but not since becoming a mortician and so she reviewed it from that angle. She's very funny and wholesome.
I loved Caitlyn's reaction to it.
@@toxicginger9936 *Caitlin
I remember because she spells it the same way as my wife's name.
Love her channel, and her reaction to this movie. She is so fascinating to watch, as well as her content.
@@Chrisyt272 The Middle Ages are MAGIC!
Same, LOVE her channel! Hello Deathlings! 😄
Vada: "My mother will take care of him."
Me: "Oh, Ashleigh is screwed now."
Yeah, that one made me a blubbering mess just now. It made me think of when my 21 year old cousin died in a car accident back in 2003 and my stepdad died of cancer 3 days later. My mom was like, she's not alone now (my cousin). He (my stepdad) will look after her. Now I'm a sobbing, stuffy mess.
He was watching a show called " All In The Family" which stars Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker. Fun fact: the chair from All in the Family is in the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
One of the greatest sitcoms ever
Also starring Rob Reiner
@@JoeMama410 very true
All in the Family is the US version of the British "Till Death Us Do Part". Alf Garnett was the patriarch.
So the thing about "My Girl" is that this was the Macaulay Culkin movie that just happened to be released in the immediate wake of "Home Alone". "Home Alone" was insanely popular. It spent twelve months at number one, and it was even was the highest-grossing live-action comedy *of all time* for many years. It was such a cultural phenomenon, nearly everyone I knew wanted to see "My Girl" as soon as possible simply because "Mac's back!"
As you might have noticed, right from the start, there are quite a few significant differences in mood and tone between "Home Alone" and "My Girl"... 😭
I was not prepared. My friends (who on the whole liked "Home Alone" way more than I did) were REALLY not prepared. Honestly, I don't think anyone was prepared, and That Ending remains one of the most notoriously devastating pop culture moments of the time.
Now just imagine if the next one was Jacob's Ladder...
The film caused controversy because of What happened to his character and reportedly, there were so many little girls crying in the theater that is caused some parents dicomfort. LOL
Even without that context this movie was devaststing, I watched it before Home Alone as a kid (I was born the early 2000s) at my grandma's house, I only got to see half of the movie, and the funeral scene got burned into my young brain I forgot what the movie was called (since I was very young) but I always remembered that specific scene.
Every pre teen girl in 1991 completely lost it over "He can't see without his glasses"...and every boy lost it over "I order you not to go" (Terminator 2)...also 06:41 that is "All in the Family"
I'm a old man nowadays, but I cried at 'He can't see without his glasses" part when I first saw it in the theater, and still every time I watch it since to this day.
@@robertawesome2410 back then I tried not to, always denied it. But couldn't help it.
"He can't see without his glasses" gets me every time. Imagine me as a kid watching this cause I loved Macaulay Culkin thanks to Home Alone and expecting a sweet happy kids movie. Of course I was completely crushed when he died and I didn't watch this movie again until many years later 😭😭😭
Are you me?
P.S. - Ashleigh's reaction is the closest I've been to watching it a second time.
@@Nightroadtube even when watching it again, it's very easy to get teary eyed. Took me some time to watch it again but I don't see myself watching it on a regular basis unless I need a good cry.
have you seen the good son?
@@jamesglasgow5232 Not really but I love Richie Rich
Saw this at the theater when it came out. Didn't cry until "he can't see without his glasses" and, like you, had a hard time stopping. I still cry at that part.
Jamie Leigh & Dan were together in Trading Places, which I'm sure you watched but forgot.
To all the big Ashleigh fans out there....when you recommend a movie to her, NEVER tell her its going to make her cry...or make her super happy, or whatever emotion you think the movie evokes. As she said, that puts pressure on her to react a certain way, and it also diminishes the true emotional reaction. So, if you want to recommend My Girl, for instance, just tell her its a great movie about friendship and learning the lessons of growing up.
What if we tell her that Watership Down is a cartoon about cute fluffy bunnies?
I've seen this film with my class in 2nd grade back in '92. Fell in love with Vada and her many quirks immediately, laughed hard at Grandma's funeral performance (it's the old lady from Airplane!) and then the movie broke me hard. Seeing such a serious film as an 8 year old changed my life. Now I'm 38 and I'm still tearing up...
23:09 Ashleigh's reaction doing deuces while tears running down her face was the depiction of her.
The "where are his glasses" line at the funeral gets me every time!
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Every. Time. 😭
Yup😭😭
The teacher is Griffin Dunne. His dad was Dominick Dunne, a writer, investigative journalist, and producer (I remember him best as writing true crime books about wealthy, high society people who committed murder). His sister was Dominique Dunne, the older sister in Poltergeist, who was murdered in 1982 by an ex boyfriend. One of my favorite Griffin Dunne movies is After Hours (1985).
I loved him in Johnny dangerously. Laughed so hard i was literally in the floor at the theater while everyone was wondering what busted my funny bone ----- honestly - is when he was using the pricing guns on the puppies. I lost it
I absolutely love After Hours. It's so underrated. I hope Ashleigh watches it at some point.
If I remember correctly, he also plays the uncle in “This is Us,” right?
I was a huge fan of After Hours, as I was bartending downtown in my early 20's when it was first released. And a few years later i read Dommenick Dunne's novel People Like Us for the first (of many) times and his regular columns in Vanity Fair. Have read most of his books since then.
@@Chrisyt272 Yes he played Nicky ..The Uncle
I'm sitting here bawling like a baby this is one movie I have never rewatched since the first time. I knew this would happen. Just remember a good cry now and then can be cathartic.
And VERY relieving. Cuz all the pressure needs to be vented or pressure leads to an explosion.
There are a couple of movies I never saw again after the first time because I cried so hard I ended up with a headache). One of the others is Shindler's List. Fantastically made movie but I walked out of the theater with a migraine. I will watch reactors but will never watch them in their entirety again - I still cry but not so hard for so long.
I remember I wore my brand new suede leather jacket when I went to see this movie, and I cried so much and stained the jacket with my tears.
Every time I see My Girl, I cry. I don’t think I’ll ever not cry watching it.
This movie killlllls me. The tears, the memories. Just so good all these years later
Yeah I think it's so interesting that you picked two very similar movies to review back to back, not similar stories exactly, but dealing with themes of childhood friendships, coming of age, and coping with death/mortality. Both excellent films in their own right, but definitely not the typical romance theme for Valentine's, and I think that's refreshing actually. I'm always glad when you get to watch a really good movie, even if it doesn't necessarily fit whatever season or holiday we're in.
I remember seeing this in the theater when I was a teen, it is the first time I ever cried at a movie, there was not a single dry eye in the room. "He needs his glasses" -- the line that scarred a generation. 😆😭 Loved your reaction as always, hope you never feel pressure to react in any way other than what you truly feel. I would not have thought any less of you had you not cried. 💗 No one should be criticizing your reactions, we know and appreciate your authenticity always.
Anyway, thanks for this beautiful reaction, Ashleigh. Happy almost Valentine's Day! 💕
Oh Ashleigh. Yes, Dan can really play the tuba. (no idea about the French horn) EDIT: thank you editing Ashleigh
As a tuba player myself, I cringed so hard.
First thought I had, french horn is so much smaller. I also played in the band from forth grade to senior year.
@@joedavis3748 I am one as well, I teach tuba for a living and play in a symphony
Aw man, this one usually doesn't make me cry but your reaction was more than I could take.
That show he was watching was All In the Family. Very important show that really pushed the envelope in it's time. Also, the fruge is a dance move.
stand by me, my girl, goonies.. etc. they are all so good because the group of children are so believable in that their friendships are so genuine
"I got a tear running down my titties." Ha ha, Ash I swear, if I ever attempt to write another movie script, I am gonna have to base one of the characters on you.
I know Ashleigh reacts to older movies, but I would love to see her watch "Everything Everywhere All At Once", if only for her reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis' scenes (but also because its one of the best movies I've seen in years).
This lost a poll to Big Fish. I voted for Everything.
One of the best movies I've ever seen period. It made me have an emotional reaction to a rock. An effing rock. I haven't recommend a movie to people as enthusiastically since Captain Fantastic.
I didn't even realize it was Jamie Lee Curtis in that movie.. (nor did I realize that the husband was Short Round!)
This movie holds such a special place in my heart. My cousin owned a funeral home and my Dad used to help out with maintenance and stuff once in a while. It was a huge old place and there were many afternoons I would go after school to wait for my Dad. I would sit in the viewing room and do my homework. It was so calm and quiet. You have more to fear from the living than the dead. My cousins and I would also slide down the banisters from the apartment upstairs to the downstairs office! It was a spiral one! So fun! 😂
I haven't seen this movie since I was kid, but the "he needs his glasses" part has been stuck in my head since then.
"Where's his glasses, he can't see without his glasses!" gets me everytime. I've seen this movie so many times since it came out, and it always makes me cry my eyes out.
Ashleigh, I am so glad you told us well in advance that you were going to watch this so I could prepare myself emotionally to be able to watch it today without having a panic attack. This is such a powerful movie, and deserved much more notoriety than it received. This movie does the best job of lulling you into the happiness and silliness until .... it mule kicks you right in the heart and then pumps acid into that open wound. I have never met anyone who was prepared going into this movie for the first time.
I thought this movie was critically acclaimed?
Having been an Ashleigh fan for a long time, I've seen what makes her cry. (Which are pretty much the things that make me cry, which is one reason I'm a fan.) And the moment I saw this video, and saw she reacted to this movie, I actually yelled "DAMN, girl! What are you doing??" 😱
I"m waiting for Beaches.
@@stephenolan5539 oh man, beaches...
I was so obsessed with this movie back then. My best friend was forced to watch me acting scenes out of the movie. The poor thing, what a patience! 😅 We were actually watching the movie together at the Cinema. And the minute I could get it on VHS I taped the audio with my cassette recorder and listened to it a hundred times... Crazy, but it comforted me and distracted me from other things in my life.
I've watched this movie several times so I fast-forward to the end before the bee attack to watch Ashleigh's reaction. It still gets me every time from the moment Vada approaches Thomas Jay's coffin. You feel you're fighting back the tears and then she starts talking to him and finally "where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!!"
every time my wife says she forgot her glasses I say "but you can't see without your glasses!" in a little kid voice and it never gets old.
the child actors in this did such a good job. this movie broke me when i watched this growing up but it's such an important movie epsecially for kids to teach them about life. such a good movie
Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Akyrod had such great chemistry in Trading Places, I loved seeing it more in depth in the My Girl movies.
You are my favorite RUclipsr by far. You are authentic and I love you for it
Awww she is so innocent seeing this movie for the first time she doesn’t know the heart ache that will fall upon her
"his glasses, where are his glasses?"
I'm not crying, I just have allergies to really sad moments in this movie
I went to see this at the cinema when it was released. I was 10 years old and sobbed my little heart out 😭
Child Actors tend to come in generations, not just because of talent, but because of material. This movie is *great* material. It's the same reason that everything with McKenna Grace is fire. She's an intensely talented actress, but the roles are fantastic as well. There are a lot of actors who were placed solely in child focused material and they can come off as kinda ehhhh. In the 80s and 90s though you had kid actors being kids in stuff that was adult fare, or kid focused but with adult layers. I haven't seen that much after the turn of the millennium until recently.
once again Ashleigh proves why she is my favorite RUclips reactor.
Ashleigh, You go into these movies honestly, the way we did when we saw them in the theaters. You know a little bit from the poster, a little background from pop culture which is going to be similar to what we saw in really basic trailers.
and you react with humor and compassion and anger and joy - and occasionally in movies like this, with tears. and always commentary that we love.
I just knew that this movie was going to blindside you, but you stuck it out and reminded us why we go to the movies, and why we want your channel!
I loved the TV show "This Is Us." The teacher in "My Girl" had a role in "This Is Us" and it took SO long to know that the parts were played by the same actor.
Anna Chlumsky resurfaces as an adult on Veep and absolutely kills it!
I had never cried at a movie before I watched this. I had made it through Ghost, and Always sitting in the theatre beside friends who cried. This one though. It destroyed me. I was such a blubbering mess that the woman sitting in front of me turned and asked me if I was okay. I can laugh now, but then I usually start to cry again just thinking about it.
I hope she has tissues next Monday, because one scene in the color purple, the tears just burst out of me, in the theater
Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd were previously in Trading Places together where you saw Jamie bare it all.
Just found your channel (beyond psyched for your Buffy journey).
This movie as a kid broke me...then I watched it again a year or so ago, and yeah, still broke me. Such a great movie and none of us knew from the trailers that ending was coming. Was marketed as a coming of age comedy romp. If we only knew...
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Hey, Ashleigh, interesting fact about that kissing scene with Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin. That scene, actually won them the first MTV movie award for "Best Kiss," and Anna Chlumsky said in her acceptance speech, "That's My First Kiss And I Won An Award For It"
you should DEFINITELY give My Girl 2 a watch. it’s just as good as the first, imo, and explores how Veda handles her teen years. also, you didn’t disappoint with this reaction Ashleigh! thanks for the reaction and the cry ❤
"I got tears running down my titties." Iconic line
I was kinda surprised you didn't recognize 'All In the Family' (the show they were watching), I think you'd like it. 'Maude' was a spin-off from it too.
Ashleigh's merch should include t-shirts that say "I got tears running down my titties."
The Jeffersons was also a spinoff of All In the Family.
@@scottlyttle5586 and good times was a spin off of Maude.
Half the CBS sitcom lineup in the late 70s was spun off (directly or indirectly) from "All in the Family"
It’s nice to see Dan and Jamie paired up again (after Trading Places). This was one of my favorites back when it came out but I have a hard time watching it because it has such sad subjects. Can’t wait to see you react to The Color Purple. Such a good film!!
Hasn't Ashleigh watched Trading Places?
Or did she just forget it was Dan Ackroyd in the blackface 😱
@@andreafaloona4059 She did see it. Not sure if she forgot but she said this at 13:27 which makes me think she might have.
I watched this when it was released in theaters. Tears were pouring down my face. I was trying so hard to cry quietly in this theater full of people. "He can't see without his glasses!" I sobbed out loud. Blubbering sobs.
My Girl 2 isn't nearly as brutal. I think you'll like it.
As a middle millennial myself, This movie and Free Willy are the first movies i remember crying to.
You get so emotionally invested in your movies, and it shows you have a big and tender heart. Don't ever apologize or feel weird or have any misgivings about it. It's real and it's beautiful, and so are you.
Here in Australia, Ashleigh, your videos don't drop till 2:00am, but you have no idea how much it is worth it to sit up to see you react to movies like these. February is going to be a heck of a month for you.
G'day from Florida. 👋
11pm in Western Australia though! 😁
Oiiiii!!! Greetings from Germany. When you posted your comment it was 4:15 PM :)
G'day mate! From Kentucky, USA
@@crisb2890 G'day mate from Melbourne.
I saw this in the theater with my Girl Scout troop when we were 11, and we were all crying. I've seen it a few times since and I cry every time.
This is my favourite movie, for years I’ve hoped you would watch it and I’m not disappointed!
I forgot how big this movie was at the time. It is so adorable and then so sad. Grown ass men who had survived Nam bawled like babies during this movie. Don't worry about it, Ash. My Girl has been memory holed a bit but it was a huge in the theater and again on HBO and cable tv.
As soon as I saw you had reviewed this I just knew I’d be sobbing with you. Some movies have such an impact on you that you don’t forget them and this is one of them.
I saw this on RUclips, and my immediate reaction was "oh, no! Ashley!". Great reaction, as always, and your tears are exactly what the filmmakers intended. This one is a gut punch, but such a great film!
This probably wasn't the first movie I saw in theaters that made me cry, but it's the first one I can definitively remember making me cry.
I had to delay watching you review this movie because I knew *I* was going to cry. I just love this movie. Great reaction, Ashleigh!
18:09 The Lindbergh Baby was the 20-month-old son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had successfully completed the first solo flight from the United States to Europe in 1927 and was considered a national hero, and his wife Anne. The child had been abducted right out of his crib one night in 1935, which prompted a furious public reaction and a nationwide search that brought the fledgling FBI to greater prominence. The child was later found murdered not far from home, his skull bashed in. This led to the trial of Richard Hauptmann, a neighbor of the Lindberghs and a German immigrant, for the kidnapping and the murder. The trial was front page news in virtually every newspaper in the country (of which there were many more than today), as well as radio news (TV hadn’t happened just yet). He was found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair, which was carried out in 1936.
This was the movie that turned 11 year old me into a movie buff. 32 years later and it's still so good. I was worried you'd not like it and just be distracted by Jamie looking gorgeous, but seeing you looking like Alice Cooper while heartbrokenly trying to sing along with the end credits..you got it (just like 11 year me back in 1991 did).
"Can Dan really play the French Horn" - literally killed me!
We both be ghosts. Tears running down my titties.
You should absolutely watch my girl 2! I’m torn between which one I love more because they’re equally good. The best part about it is while it has returning characters and also gets you all up in the feels, the story is completely different. This movie is a celebration of death while part 2 is a celebration of love. One of my favorite songs in the world, which I’d never heard before part 2, still brings a happy tear to my eye when I hear it because i associate it with part 2, a movie I watched when I was going through really hard times and it really helped. Would be thrilled if you watched part 2 some day.
Would that be the song “smile” perhaps?
@@treemarie213100 indeed it is.
"Though there may be clouds in the sky, youll get by, smile though your heart is aching smile even though its breaking..."
Dude just writing the lyrics makes me tear up. That scene with Vada and the projector in my girl 2 is worth watching the whole movie for!
This movie wrecked me! I was maybe a couple years older than the kids in this when I saw it and I cried so hard. It was so good but but just hit so hard. Definitely in that top handful of movies where once I started crying I just couldn’t stop. Love this movie. My best friend’s mom always played the oldies station in her car and we used to sing along a bop to “my girl” but after this movie we would get teary eyed and our voices would start cracking if we tried to sing along to it. I can’t say it ruined the song, it just changed it’s association so profoundly. I don’t really remember what My Girl 2 was about but it’s a totally different emotion scape than this one. You’re absolutely right that this movie never needed a sequel, but if you wanted to know what happens next in Veda’s life that would be the only reason to watch it. I honestly think they made it to give emotional closure and kinda a “there, there, now. Veda is going to be okay and everything is going to be alright in the end” kind of pat on the back to all the people they emotionally destroyed with the first movie.
I watched this as a little kid so much and I loved it but it always made me cry more than any other movie. My uncle was a mortician and I wanted to be one so bad so I thought it was cool that she lived in a funeral home but the friendship/love story is what had me coming back again and again. Him going back and trying to get her ring and her crying over his casket are the scenes that get me every time. It’s the saddest movie I’ve ever seen but it’s such a great movie
I know sometimes these movies are hard to watch, I wanted to say thank you Ashleigh. As tough as they are I get to relive them through you, memories rush back, sad and happy. Some days i dont feel alive just walking through the tedium of life, but then I get to watch these with you and well feel alive again. Thanks!
Daniel, you be important!
I encourage you to really seek out what you love in this life and go after it, bit by bit, day by day, until you get back to the point where you feel alive all the time!
Hugs
I've seen this movie dozens of times and I still ugly cry every time! Awesome reaction. Have to watch My Girl 2 now!
Ugly cry every time you see this movie is actually a good thing. It means you still got a pulse ;-)
The TV show they were watching was All in the Family. Considered to be one of the most groundbreaking TV shows of all time.
And co-starring Rob Reiner, director of "Stand By Me," which Ashleigh just reviewed last week -- as well as ex-husband of the late, great Penny Marshall! All sorts of nice "meta" connections!
Bless your funny kind heart. This film got me bad when I was a kid. I saw the thumbnail and automatically said out loud "Oh no......she's gonna watch My Girl".
I saw this movie with my mom dad and sister in theatres. The entire theatre was bawling their eyes out. I man an entire room full of ugly crying. I was little and i knew it was sad but I've never to this day expirienced that kinda situation.
I didn't think this movie needed a sequel either until I watched it. I think you would like My Girl 2.
“Next Monday is The Color Purple...”
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Well, holy hell Ashleigh. You are not giving yourself an easy February.
This is a guaranteed tear jerker. Love this movie ♥️
“I don’t know what show that is.” All In The Family. Would love to see you react to that sometime, especially certain episodes
Now you've seen this movie the song will nearly always bring you to tears.
The teacher was the lead in An American Werewolf in London.
"I didn't know I needed to see her and Dan Aykroyd together." Didn't you see Trading Places?
Grown men were crying everywhere in the theatre when Macs death happens. And I did too when I rewatched it as a grown up.
Theres a movie called Juice. And it always reminds me of Stand By Me.
It's almost like an urbanized Hip Hop and Gangbanger version of Stand By Me.
We men cry when there really is a damn good reason for it. ;_;
Sometimes we all need a good cry, and coming from a 44 year old man right here, this one does it to me every time. Such a beautiful film all around. Sad, but so heartwarming and touching.
I watched this when I was a kid (here in Brazil this movie was always on the "afternoon sessions" kinda show) and I never git over Thomas' death.
I'm so excited for the color purple! You're going to love it. Also, I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but that was a tuba :)