Mystic Pizza

 

Mystic Pizza 1998

• Director: Donald Petrie
• Seen by this director: Miss Congeniality, Grumpy Old Men
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D’Onofrio, William R Moses, Adam Storke
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Annabeth Gish – Beautiful Girls
• Julia Roberts – August Osage County, Fireflies in the Garden, Closer, Mona Lisa’s Smile, Erin Brokovich, Notting Hill, Pretty Woman and others.
• Lili Taylor – The Conjuring, Six Feet Under, High Fidelity, A Slipping-Down Life and others
• Why? I remember liking it.
• Seen: Once before. Now 16 December 2022. 

       Daisy (Roberts), her sister Kat (Gish) and their friend Jojo (Taylor) work at Mystic Pizza in a small harbour town. Kat has been accepted into Yale to study astronomy, Daisy is a cheeky flirt who feels inferior to her smart sister, and Jojo faints at her wedding because she’s not ready to get married.

       Rich, suave, good-looking Charlie (Storke) saunters into town and is dazzled by Daisy when she beats everyone at pool. Kat falls for Tim (Moses), the young Yalee, father of the little girl she babysits while his wife is in London. Jojo loves Bill’s (D’Onofrio) body but he wants to wait until they get married.

       Three young women in a small lobster town.

       It just a predictable clichéd rom-com but it’s about three working class young women trying to find their way into the future.

       I still like it.      

4* of 5