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Mystic Pizza (Widescreen)

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This is one of those movies that you can watch over and over. It has a great cast and storylines. This is one of my favourite Julia Roberts films. She is just so alive and captivating - the story just pulls you in to make you think you are there. I want to know whats in the pizza.... lol
Mystic Pizza [Blu-ray]

If you like this, you will also like the movie Satisfaction... great music and cast(which includes Julia Roberts)!!!
Satisfaction

I am also a huge fan of Annabeth Gish. She play the plain jane in this film but totally steals the spot light. She is one of those people that shows her inner beauty as well as her outter beauty. If you loved her in Mystic Pizza then also check out SHAG.... a little dated but over all a great chick flick.
"Shag, the Movie (Widescreen)"

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.

This is definately a girl movie because it is all about the lives of 3 girls around 20 or so. I loved the fun they had together. They partied and danced, laughed and played tricks on each other and the guys they were involved with. Robert's character had alot of bravado and spirit. Taylor's was cute and funny, sweet and without anger. Gish's was sensitive and smart. She held back more when the other 2 partied or got crazy. I loved the town of Mystic, Ct. You know there really is a Mystic Pizza. I looked it up and they really have good pizza. It can be ordered frozen through air mail and some stores actually sell it in the eastern states. It sounds absolutely wonderful. My favorite would be the Seafood Delight, with clams and scallops. They even vouch to have the mysterious sauce. The film was based on this tiny restaurant. It has expanded and there are now two. I would like to go to Mystic, it seems like such a neat place to visit.

Lisa Nary

There's a line from American Pie in which one of the young guys declares, "Women are like fine wine. They just get better with age." So true. All of the women in this movie are living proof of that, especially Annabeth Gish, who went from being merely girl-next-door pretty in Mystic Pizza, to the mature goddess we have seen on the X-Files.

Mystic Pizza is very much an ensemble movie, with no one person standing out above the rest. A very strong female cast is counterpointed by some solid male performances, such as that of the always superb Vince D'Onofrio - also check out The Cell, with Jennifer Lopez.

Beautifully filmed in Conn. New England, the movie is also a visual delight, and captures the reassuring simplicity of life in an Atlantic fishing community. I love Nova Scotia and Maine for the same reason. The original Mystic Pizza restaurant is still going strong and their website is well worth a visit.

All in all, a very sweet movie about real people and real family situations, and it remains one of my favorite movies of all time. I literally never tire of this modern classic. My only quibble is that the last spoken line is disturbingly unimaginative and anti-climactic. After crafting such a superb screenplay, the writers just seemed to run out of inspiration at the last hurdle. As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating."

1988ï¿s Mystic Pizza is an enjoyable film about three young Portuguese women who work at a pizzeria in the fishing/resort town of Mystic, CT. Julia Roberts stars as Daisy, a headstrong girl whose fast and loose behavior has not endeared her to her mother. Annabeth Gish plays her younger sister Kat, whose is the opposite of Daisy. She is quiet, brainy and is going to Yale to study astronomy. Lili Taylor plays Jojo who is the girlï¿s best friend. She has a quirky and carefree disposition and at the beginning of the film leaves her fiancé, Bill, played by the underrated Vincent Dï¿Onofrio, who is a local fisherman at the alter. The movie centers around the girlï¿s place of employment, Mystic Pizza, which is run by the gruff, but caring Leona (Conchata Ferrell) whose pizza is famously regarded and guards the secret to her sauce with a zealotï¿s devotion. Both Daisy and Kat fall for guys during the summer, Daisy with a lazy, knockabout trust fund kid Charlie (Adam Storke) and Kat with Tim Travers, a wealthy architect whom Kat is babysitting his daughter Phoebe. The movie is basically a predictable romantic comedy, but the actors are so likeable, that youï¿ll find yourself being caught up in their stories and director Donald Petrie perfectly captures the beautiful southern Connecticut coast (the film was shot in Mystic as well as other Connecticut towns and Rhode Island). This film marked the first starring role for Julia Roberts and while it didnï¿t catapult her to immediate stardom it set the blueprint for the type of role that would make her into the most popular actress in Hollywood. The film is also notable as it marks the film debut of Matt Damon who has a blink and you miss part as the ridiculously named Steamer who is Charlieï¿s brother and appears in a scene at a dinner with Daisy meeting Charlieï¿s family for the first time.

This story followesing the messed up love lives of three young waitresses is good because young people can relate. Some can relate to Kat (Anabelle Gish) who is the 'smart sister' with a crush on a more sophisticated man as opposed to fisherman like Bill. Some can relate to Daisy (Julia Roberts), 'The gorgeous sister' who is going no where but the back of sports cars. Others can relate to JoJo (Lili Taylor), a girl who's only way to show love is through sex. I think a lot of guys can relate to the male charecters also, like Bill (Vincent D'Onofrio), a man in love with a woman who won't commit or Charlie, (Adam Storke) a token rich boy who uses anything he can to get back at his father (including Daisy), and then there is Tim (William R. Moses) a gutless, cheating, liar. But despite thier different personalities the girls are all held together by love, Leona, and Mystic Pizza.
The chemistry between Lili Taylor (JoJo) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Bill) made their charecters very believable as compared to William Moses (Tim) and Annabelle Gish (Kat). Julia Roberts was amazing on her own, she always is, but Lili Taylor was outstanding.

This 1988 romantic comedy is set in Mystic, Connecticut, a working-class fishing town where most of the inhabitants have a Portuguese background. The three stars are waitresses in the local pizzeria called Mystic Pizza. It's the summer after they've just graduated from high school and the most important thing in their lives are their romantic attachments. Lili Taylor walks down the aisle with her future husband but has cold feet at the last minute. Annabeth Gish, college bound, earns extra money babysitting and doesn't expect to fall in love with the married father of the child she babysits for. And Julia Roberts, then 21, with a yearning to rise above her prescribed life, falls in love with a wealthy Yale law student.

How it all plays out is predictable, with a laugh or two along the way. The film barely held my attention as my interest in the romantic goings on was lukewarm. More interesting to me though, was the social structure of the town, located near an upper class area and the sharply drawn differences between the two places. One of the most memorable scenes is when some Yale college students come into a working class bar and invite Julia Roberts to join them in a game of pool.

If you like romantic comedy, you might get a chuckle out of this.

This "sleeper" hit looks just as good today as it did when it was first released. It follows the trials and tribulations of three childhood friends. They all work as waitresses in a pizza parlor and all are at a crossroad in their life. Kat (Annabeth Gish) is preparing to leave home for Yale to begin a career in Astronomy. Daisey (Julia Roberts) Kat's sister, seems to be floundering, with no real direction to go in life, and JoJo (Lili Taylor, who gives the film's most comedic performance), is torn between her love for her fiance Bill, and settling down into a married life filled with screaming kids and massive weight gain.
The film intergrates all three stories and keeps the plot moving at a brisk pace. All three friends have very different personalities, allowing most of the audience to be able to identifiy with at least one of them. I will admit, however, that the ultra idealistic, goodie-goodie Kat does get on my nerves from time to time. (I particularly enjoyed the scene where Daisey hauls off and belts her across the face). The chemistry between the leads works extremely well which only strengthens the movie. Roberts gives a strong performance and shows the audience the first signs of the hollywood powerhouse she would soon become. The three leads are admirabley backed up by a strong supporting cast as well, most notably, Conchata Ferrell as the owner of the pizza parlor.
The DVD version has a sharp clear picture and good sound quality (although it's been my experience that most DVDs do)but I cannot give it a full "5 star" rating because, with the exception of a wide-screen format, the original theatrical trailer, and a language selection (provided by most {although not all} DVDs), this version offers no extras. No "voice over" commentary, no deleted scenes, no making of documentaries, no outtakes, nothing. Therefore, the DVD version of Mystic Pizza loses out on a perfect score. BUYER BEWARE: For those who haven't seen the film, the DVD cover gives the impression that it is a "Julia Roberts Movie" when, in reality it is actually an ensemble film.

It's girl's night in, although less-than formative for a young Julia Roberts, in such later company as 'My Best Friend's Wedding' or 'The Mexican'-- a decidedly pedestrian romantic comedy that scores in the 'cute' category, but somehow does not deliver 'buildup, breakup, makeup' catharsis that I know all you girls crave in a film of this genre. Particularly interesting, though, is the reversal of classic sex-roles pioneered by Vincent D'Onofrio, when Bill, his character, declares to love-nymph Jo Jo (played by Lili Taylor) "I'm telling you that I love you... and all you love is my d***!"
It's three for one in the love-tryst column, with the action shifting nubilely from each of the sister's separate but inextricably linked soap-operas. The continuity of the three stories admittedly works, but no box of tissues needed. Oh, and you guys make sure you're comfortable, in case you fall asleep.
The unlikely and scarcely workable casting match of Roberts with object Adam Storke (the baby-faced favorite-son Charles) sours the appeal here, but, after all, 'These are the times to remember.'

"Mystic Pizza" is a light-hearted, engaging look at the lives of three girls who work in a restaurant in the Connecticut fishing port town. Julia Roberts shines in her starring role, and (don't blink!) you can catch an early Matt Damon appearance. There are some strong supporting performances, especially the heart-of-gold restaurant owner (who uses special spices from Portugal in her secret pizza recipe), and the fus-fop food critic who pays them a visit.

The movie is dated in some respects: a yuppie couple drive a Volvo station wagon but load their four-year-old daughter on her mother's lap in the front seat instead of belting her safely in the back. Yes, this may be to show us the unity of their family and its affect on one of the three waitresses, but it also seems to demonstrate a misguided casual approach to child safety which I doubt would be filmed today. This couple, both Yalies, are 30 years old, married with a four-year-old, a scenario which although plausible is far less likely in 2002 due to much later marriages.

There are some other anachronistic attitudes which date this movie, but over all, it's a charming story and women especially will find it enchanting.