

When your Dad's an undertaker, your Mom's in heaven, and your Grandma's got a screw loose...it's good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy.
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...
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Griffin Dunne
Mr. Jake Bixler

Ann Nelson
Gramoo Sultenfuss

Peter Michael Goetz
Dr. Welty

Jane Hallaren
Nurse Randall

Anthony R. Jones
Arthur

Tom Villard
Justin
Lara Steinick
Ronda

Kristian Truelsen
Charles

David Caprita
Ray

Jody Wilson
Mrs. Hunsaker

Linda Perri
Betty
Nancy L. Chlumsky
Jackie
Glenda Chism
Thomas J.'s Mother
Bill Cordell
Thomas J.'s Father

Ray Buktenica
Danny

Shane Obedzinski
Billy
Edgar Allan Poe IV
Carnival Barker

Anthony Giaimo
Carnival Barker