In my mind, My Girl and Harriet the Spy share a lot of similarity. The "oodles of personality" statement about Michelle in Harriet the Spy applies equally to Anna in My Girl. This is a lovely family movie about an 11-year-old girl Vada Sultenfuss who lives in a funeral parlor run by her gentle but inattentive father. Saying that Vada is obsessed with death gives a rather gloomy impression, but this movie is anything but. There are none of the usual family movie flaws. All characters are real persons, and there is no need to suspend belief at any point. The story is rather ordinary one, with Vada learning to deal with loss in life, and with her relationship to death. I wasn't bored for a moment however, as it's a joy to simply follow Vada's life.

Created by Quentin Tarantino, the legend, best known from Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bill movies are a distillation and a tribute to the genre of kung-fu movies. The greatest strength is perhaps the satire aspect, full respect for which requires some experience of kung-fu movies, but Kill Bills can also be watched as excellent action movies, or even as passable dramas. The big surprise in the end of Volume 2 is Perla's sweet, touching character, so very humane in end of such a violent, detached movie. Unfortunately this role seems to end up as Perla's best role as a child; her role in Dark Water is small, though perhaps worth checking for fans.

Although strictly speaking Mischa in Lost and Delirious is too old for this site, we've included it because both I and Alex find this movie magical. Pauline and Victoria, sixteen-year-old girls, are best friends in a boarding school, share a room, and are in love with each other. Mischa's character, Mary 'Mouse' Bradford, arrives at the school and is assigned to the same room. Loving parents don't put their children into a boarding school, at least not in case of these three. Mary has just lost her mother, Victoria's are emotionally distant, and Pauline never knew her real mother. But all seems well, the girls having fun together, until Victoria's younger sister Allison (Emily VanCamp, also on the cast of Everwood, who makes a good annoying brat of a little sister) finds out about the love affair, and Victoria must choose between staying with Pauline or abandoning her to avoid disgrace from her family.

Mischa's character is very likeable, but it is Piper Perabo as Pauline who steals every scene she's in. The music of the introductory scene, narrated by Mischa, has some magically captivating quality that works tremendously well on both of us, and the rest of the movie lives up to the high standards the beginning sets.

Based on the classic girls' book, this is a beautiful, touching and even sugary movie about the March family, its four girls, and their arriving to adulthood. All actors do a lovely job. This movie made me an instant fan of Winona Ryder (playing Jo) for her beauty and charm, and Claire Danes (playing Beth) for her unparalleled gentle sweetness.

Eleven-year-old Kirsten's performance as young Amy is fair, but not comparable to that in Interview with the Vampire. A special mention goes to the beautiful soundtrack. If, unlike us, you're not a sap, this might not be your movie.

An entertaining, slightly dark comedy. Sam Callahan, an early teenaged boy, moves into a new town with his care-free mother and ends up in a confusing relationship with Maurey Pierce, played enjoyably by early teen Mischa. One could consider this a coming-of-age story taking place in the 60s, but actually the movie is a parody of one. Many people appear not to like the movie, but I do, quite possibly because of Mischa's quite large role in it.

Mischa plays Maurey, a cheerleader, whose boyfriend is Sam's worst enemy, and who knows all of the exaggeratedly absurd social rules of the youth of the town. Though not popular at school, Sam ends up as Maurey's sex practice partner, even a friend of sorts. The strange relationship of the two is in the center of the movie, and good use is made of its peculiar and slightly taboo aspects.

Compared to Mischa's gentle roles in her following movies (see Mischa's bio), she's considerably evil in this one. Essential watching for Mischa fans.

A worthy, fairly unique vampire story, based on Anne Rice's book. Kirsten plays a child vampire Claudia, a thought provoking role: a girl who never grows; or an, eventually, adult woman imprisoned in a child's body. Kirsten is fantastic. Rice's vampires are multi-faceted beings: fierce, refined, ruthless and loving. Kirsten's Claudia is all of this at full, making the role easily her best, the only downside being that her role lasts only part of the movie.

Three stories with seemingly little in common with them except for the same three characters. In each, something, or frequently a lot seems to be wrong, and getting even stranger, and the audience is left guessing what the big picture is. Instead of being irritatingly confusing, the result is an unsually surreal and captivating, scifi-flavored mystery story.

Elle is only in the last of the substories, where she plays a couple's daughter Noelle. (Is it a cute little joke to name the character NoElle?) Through most of the story she's a typical child character, a little girl waiting worriedly in a car for her father to come back.

Although throughout strikingly beautiful, as usual, in the end of the movie she truly shines in her role of "the best thing in the world," a perfect match for Elle. It's a gorgeous happy family scene, everybody baking together, Noelle talking about her dream horses and princesses, and smiling in such a heart warming and contagious manner that I'm unable to stop smiling like a fool myself every time I rewatch the scene.

In a gritty Polish town there is a 9-year-old girl, nicknamed Crow. Her mother is indifferent about her, and always tired. The movie, shot in black and white and available only in VHS, tells about a day in Crow's life, with no happy ending. A sad but beautiful movie. Karolina plays uppity, tough and imaginative Crow well.

A good, classic family movie, which those who saw it as a child won't forget. E.T. is a sympathetic alien that is stranded on the Earth, and a group of children help him return. Drew's first big role.

Beautiful, glowing cinematography galores in this historical fairytale of two girls who find little fairies in their garden. The cheerful beauty of Elizabeth, who plays one of the girls (Frances), would alone make this a worth paying for, but the rest of the cast is strong too.