Mystic Pizza (1988)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 4
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Three teenagers learn a lot about life and love one summer in this romantic comedy-drama. Kat (Annabeth Gish), Daisy (Julia Roberts), and Jojo (Lili Taylor) are three working-class women just out of high school who have jobs at the same pizza parlor in the resort community of Mystic, Connecticut. Kat wants to study astronomy at Yale; when she starts baby-sitting for Tim (William R. Moses), a wealthy Yale graduate summering in Mystic, she finds herself falling in love with him, even though he's
Oct 1, 1988 Wide
Nov 14, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
Cast
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Annabeth Gish
Kat Araujo -
Julia Roberts
Daisy Araujo -
Lili Taylor
Jojo Barboza -
Vincent D'Onofrio
Bill Montijo -
William R. Moses
Tim Travers -
Adam Storke
Charles Gordon Winsor -
Conchata Ferrell
Leona Valsouano -
Joanna Merlin
Mrs. Arujo -
Gene Amoroso
Mr. Ed Barboza -
John Cunningham
Mr. Windsor -
Matt Damon
Steamer -
John Fiore
Jake -
Al Hodgkins
Priest -
Keith Jochim
Tourist #2 -
Porscha Radcliffe
Phoebe Travers -
Suzanne Shepherd
Aunt Tweedy -
Louis Turenne
Everyday Gourmet -
Janet Zarish
Nicole -
Ray Zuppa
Mitch -
Marrisa Carey
Flower Girl -
Ann Flood
Polly Windsor -
Wiley Moore
Newscaster -
Jody Raymond
Teresa -
Lew Resseguie
Maitre D' -
Arthur J. Walsh
Manny
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (4) | DVD (12)
Though the film's heart is in the right place, somehow it all winds up about as flat as one of the celebrated pies at Mystic Pizza. [Blu-ray]
To put it bluntly, Mystic Pizza is more or less a movie version of a soap opera, layered in with some quirky humor and gigantic '80s hair.
The only novelty of this familiar small-town coming-of-age saga is that its women are Portugueste-American, but it's laced with humor and well-acted, and the gorgeous-looking Julia Roberts shows strong potential for becoming a major star.
Coming-of-age story flirts with melodrama but is saved by wonderful performances.
Delightful comedy-drama gave the luminous Roberts her first substantial role
One of the most charming coming of age movies ever made.
A wacky and wonderful movie about three young women friends and their misadventures with love and sex.
One of the rare "chick flicks" built on wit and sincerity ... as opposed to cliche and artifice.
Audience Reviews for Mystic Pizza
Super Reviewer
The performances by the three female leads are all quite strong, but they're strong in a cliched American way; American cinema often asks its leading ladies to be charming, upbeat, and beautiful, without much depth or sincerity, and the leads of Mystic Pizza follow this tradition, smiling and laughing in a light-hearted, cheeky way throughout the soap operatic plot. The one highlight is Lili Taylor's performance, whose monologue after she "breaks up" with Bill is extraordinary in its writing and performance.
Overall, I don't have much to say about Mystic Pizza because Mystic Pizza doesn't have a lot to say; rather than a coming-of-age drama in which boys become men, Hollywood restricts female coming-of-age dramas to films in which girls become Barbies.
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