Mystic Pizza | | Cast : | Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor | | Director : | Donald Petrie | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 21, 1988 | | DVD Released Date : | November 13, 2001 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Julia Roberts leaps to National Attention | Content
 | Mystic Pizza is a sisterhood coming of age story set in Mystic, Connecticut. Annabeth Gish and Julia Roberts play sisters Kat and Daisy and Lili Taylor plays Jo - all daughters of Portuguese fishing families in the New England village.
The three have very different personalities, but they are also loyal to one another and their friends and families, and the strength of the film are the relationships. The film opens with a horrid cliche as Jo backs out at the altar with friends and guests in tuxedoed attendance - she's afraid that marriage will hurt the sex life between she and Vincent D'Onofrio's Bill. Kat is the brainy one - en route to study astronomy at Yale, she spends her last summer babysitting for William Moses' Tim - a man who seems nice enough, but doesn't hesitate to flirt and more with the babysitter while his wife is away traveling. Julie Roberts blows away the screen as Kat's older sister Daisy, who doesn't have Ivy League Intelligence, but has world-class legs and a desire to rise above her fishing-class culture. Early on she meets preppy Charles Gordon Windsor, Jr., played by Adam Storke. Charlie has been kicked out of law school and struggles between his contempt for his nouveau riche family and his own inability to measure up. Daisy is wary that Charles is slumming as he comes onto her, but she's willing to risk a little. Look for young Matt Damon in his film debut as Charles' brother, Steamer, in the scene around the family dinner table.
Conchita Ferrell is Leona, who owns and runs Mystic Pizza, a small pizza joint with a special pizza sauce that has been handed down for generations. Kat, Jo and Daisy are all surrogate daughters as Leona's waitresses.
The plot isn't ground-breaking and a few hearts are broken and a few triumphs are shared. Ultimately, "Mystic Pizza" is worth seeing for the characters and to watch a 20-ish Julia Roberts make a mark that has kept her at the top of Hollywood ever since.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2005 | | Summary | A great treat, with the Works | Content
| The story revolves around three girls: Kat (Annabeth Gish), the brainy one who is about to start Yale; Daisy (Julia Roberts), her sister, who doesn't have the brains but wants up the ladder and thinks her body is the only way to that end; and JoJo (Lili Taylor), who is in love with a local fisherman but is afraid to marry him (which is what he wants) because it will probably mean being stuck in Mystic the rest of her life. Kat falls in love with a married man and loses big time (so much for brains), Daisy meets a rich-boy college flunky and looks like she's going to win, and JoJo finally resigns herself and says "yes." It's a wonderful little movie about three character types and their interaction as friends (they all work at a local pizza joint), their foibles and their support for each other. Although they each represent a type, there's enough subtlety and thoughtfulness in their development to make them, and the movie, most enjoyable and even memorable. Definitely worth a watch. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 15, 2005 | | Summary | A Fun, Quirky Romance Fim | Content
| Mystic pizza is the story of three young women who work at a pizza parlor in the town of Mystic, Connecticut and the struggles that they face in their lives. Each woman has a unique relationship with their boyfriends and they all face different problems throughout the course of the movie.
Couple number one is JoJo (Lili Taylor) and Bill (Vincent D'Onofrio). Bill is in love with Jo, but he wants a commitment from her, while Jo just prefers to keep their relationship simple and have fun at the same time. The beginning of the movie shows Jo walking down the aisle at her wedding, but she chickens out in the end. Will Jo ever agree to commit to Bill?
Couple number two is Daisy (Julia Roberts) and Charlie (Adam Storke). Daisy is a free spirit, while Charlie is a law student. The two couldn't be more opposite, but there is an attraction between the two. Daisy tries hard to fit in to Charlie's upper class lifestyle, but she feels that Charlie is using her to get back at his overbearing father. Will their relationship survive?
The final couple is Kat (Annabeth Gish) and Tim (William R. Moses). Kat is a very intelligent girl who is heading off to Yale in the Spring. Along the way, she answers an ad for a babysitter. Tim is a Yale alum himself, and he needs help caring for his young daughter Phoebe while his wife is in London. As the movie goes along, Tim and Kat's relationship becomes much more than father/babysitter. Just as Kat is really beginning to fall for Tim, His wife Nikki returns from London, breaking Kat's hopes of a fairytale ending with Tim and Phoebe. Will Kat be able to go on after this traumatic relationship?
I enjoyed this movie a great deal. The three storylines are skillfully interwoven together to produce a movie that is both fun and poignant at the same time. There are some funny parts to the film, such as Daisy filling Charlie's expensive Porsche with fish guts as well as some touching moments, such as Daisy softly holding a distraught Kat after Nikki comes back to Tim. I recommend this movie very highly. The story is well conceived, and the parts blend together extremely well. Watch this fun film and see these three couples discover that life has a secret ingredient; Romance. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 05, 2005 | | Summary | Three Unforgetable Young Women Coming Of Age | Content
| This 1988 romantic comedy has all the right ingredients as the three young women blossom and mature before our eyes. They are just out of high school and each one enters into a powerful complicated romantic relationship during the Mystic summer. The movie is intimate in a most beautiful way. It is a strong 5 stars. 1988 must have been a fantastic movie year as it is also the year of "Rain Man."
Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish and Lili Taylor star in this film. Mystic CT stars, too, as this most beautiful part of the State in the summer is shown in all of its summer glory. Mystic Pizza is a real restaurant where the girls worked in the summer.
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| Rating | | | Date | November 25, 2003 | | Summary | Yeah, it is a chick flick, and yeah, you will love it | Content
| A 1989 Julia Robert film. She's one of 3 girls who work at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, and each has her own set of guy troubles. Julia, the living-on-the-wild-side, sort-of-slutty townie falls for the slumming rich kid who comes to town; her sister (brainy, headed to Yale on scholarship) falls for a married man; the other one is in love with a big galoot of a local fisherman but just can't make up her mind to commit to marriage. And the fat-momma owner of the pizza place years for the day when the snobbish food critic will show up and sample her wares.
Order a pizza, pop the lid off a Pale Ale, kick of your shoes, and sit back for a kick-ass of a movie. It's great. |
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