Chlumsky's debut as Vada Sultenfuss in "My Girl" led to its 1994 sequel, "My Girl 2", in which her character travels to Los Angeles to "discover" her dead mother. Mothers again figured in "Trading Mom" (1994), a fantasy co-starring Sissy Spacek as a Mom replaced by her evil clone. In 1995, Chlumsky shared the screen with the equally precocious Christina Ricci in "Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain". She played a neglected tomboy who befriends--and gets into adventurous scrapes with--spoiled city girl Ricci.