A young girl navigates first love and loss while her funeral director father finds new romance.
Melancholy and earnest, with wholesome humor. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Paramount+.
It stays inside its PG, with mild language and nothing scary.
Our estimate: fine from about 7. Rated PG.
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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...
No. Brace yourself.
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