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Absolutely brilliant

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I have always thought Mystic Pizza was a very good, light hearted film. It's extremely well acted, the script is solid and witty, the cinematography is just heavenly (those Autumn colours are sensational!), and the story itself is heart warning and poignant. There comes a time in every young person's life when they have to figure out which direction they want to head, how they are going to get there and whether or not they will stay in the environment that reared them or branch out, beginning a new life. However, despite the uncertainty that plagues teens and twenty-somethings, there is one universal bond that will seal all cracks and that is friendship, which is the core of Mystic Pizza.This unbreakable duo of friends consists of a then unknown, yet incredibly very striking Julia Roberts. She gives a bright, charismatic performance as the wayward and confused Daisy. Her care free nature is a strong contrast to the level headed, smart and introverted Kat, played by the absolutely gorgeous Annabeth Gish. Last, but certainly not least, is the tempestuous and indecisive Jojo. There's also the men in their lives, the handsome upper-class WASP Charles, who is a little bit of a snob, the unavailable dad Tim (William R. Moses) who has his wandering eyes set on the sensitive, intellectual Kat and Bill (Vincent D'Onofrio), the long suffering husband-to-be of Jojo. The wonderful thing about this film is it never judges its female characters for their promiscuity, nor does it reduce them to crowd-appeasing stereotypes when it depicts their uncertainty or reluctance in picking a "suitable" partner, nor does it imply that they really need one. See the resolution of Kat's brief fling with the father of the girl she babysits. They don't run off, living happily ever after, and Kat, clearly changed by the event, doesn't fall into the lap of the next man who shows her attention. Genre clichés are nicely avoided and what's important here, ultimately, is friendship not love or a man. Mystic Pizza is definitely one of the better coming-of-age, small town friendship films, worthy of a lot more than the fairly dismal 6.1/10 rating it currently has.

There are no black, no Latino characters in this movie. In the town of Mystic the underclass are the "Portagee" (descendants of immigrant Portuguese) , well down the social ladder from the wealthy WASPs of the Connecticut Gold Coast.Annabeth Gish and Julia Roberts are cast as sisters but are in no way alike. Julia Roberts' character is aggressive, brassy, sexually loose. Her sister is the ingénue, bookish--headed for Yale on a partial scholarship--shy, virginal, maternal.Vincent D'Onofrio shows some of the range and talent that would later bring him a solid career in films and especially as the brilliantly eccentric Det. Bobby Goren on the long- running "Law & Order-Criminal Intent" TV series. His character is quite sympathetic, even sensitive though his partners on the fishing boat are all bull-necked, beer-swilling louts.The other two young, male characters come off far worse--and this seems to have harmed the careers of two then-promising actors. Blond, ivy league patrician William R. Moses, reminiscent of the young William Hurt, is portrayed as a cad for having had a brief affair with the Annabeth Gish character whom he has quite innocently hired to care for his young daughter (a real charmer) while his wife is off pursuing her career overseas. But the seduction is mutual, symbolized by young Annabeth ringing out the words "I'll have some wine" after the man offers her soft drinks.Maybe it's his name but the career of Adam Storke (sic) didn't go far, either. Here he plays a ne'er-do-well from a wealthy family. But he is not snobbish like his mother and aunt. His feelings for the Julia Roberts character are sincere. It is she who abuses him, first by playing a very nasty and destructive prank when she mistakenly believes he is out with another girl and later upbraiding him after he defends her at an elegant dinner party at his parents' home.On the good side, the pacing of the film is lively and features a riveting performance by Julia Roberts, when she still was relatively unknown.

The title sounds intriguing, a sort of "Zen and the Art of Pizza Making". "Mystic Pizza", however, has nothing to do with mysticism. The "mystic" is a reference to the small town of Mystic, Connecticut, and the three main characters all work as waitresses at the town's pizza restaurant. The three are sisters Kat and Daisy Araujo and their friend Jojo Barboza. All come from the town's large Portuguese-American community, and all are in their late teens or early twenties. All are romantically involved, and the film traces the stories of their romances. Kat is the intellectual of the group; she has been accepted to attend Yale University and, besides her work at the restaurant, also acts as babysitter for a thirty-something Yale graduate named Tim whose wife is currently in Europe. She falls heavily for Tim after discovering that they have intellectual interests in common and cherishes the hope that he will leave his wife for her. · Daisy's love-interest is Charles Gordon Winsor junior, the son of a wealthy WASP family. Although the Winsors are "new" rather than "old" money, they have all the snobbish instincts of the most aristocratic blue-bloods, and disapprove of their son's romance with a girl who is "ethnic", a Roman Catholic and from a working-class background. (The comments about Daisy's ethnicity did not really ring true; the Winsors seem to regard Portuguese-Americans in much the same light as particularly unenlightened British colonialists used to regard the "natives", even though there have been Portuguese communities in the New England fishing ports for several generations). This sort of conflict is a commonplace in romantic dramas; the relationship between Charles and Daisy parallels almost exactly that between the rich WASP boy Oliver and the poor Italian Catholic girl Jenny in "Love Story". Here, however, the situation is given an unusual twist. After Charles engineers a confrontation with his family over a perceived insult to Daisy, she is perceptive enough to realise that his interest in her has less to do with love than with a self-conscious act of rebellion against his privileged background. Unwilling to be used as a weapon in his private battle against his family, she ends the relationship, although a more conventional romance would have presented Charles' outburst as something admirable and provided the expected "happy-ever-after" ending. Of the three romances, in fact, two end unhappily. Rather more predictably, at least in terms of adherence to dramatic conventions, Kat discovers too late that Tim has simply been using her and has no intention of leaving his wife for her. The one story that does end happily is that of Jojo, although even here normal Hollywood conventions are given a new twist. Jojo is engaged to Bill, a local fisherman, but is reluctant to commit herself to him in marriage. This is a reversal of the normal movie cliché in which it is the male characters who are portrayed as being frightened of emotional commitment. Bill (whose strong religious beliefs preclude sex before marriage) wants to get married as soon as possible, but Jojo doesn't believe she is ready. In his review of the film, written when it first came out in1988, Roger Ebert stated "I have a feeling that "Mystic Pizza" may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars." Of the three leads it was Annabeth Gish as Kat, whom he singled out for special mention, comparing her to a "young Katharine Hepburn." Gish is certainly good, but for me the star of the film was the still little-known Julia Roberts, who shows here not only the looks and the talent but also the charisma which were to make her a major star a couple of years later in films like "Pretty Woman" and "Sleeping with the Enemy". Lili Taylor as Jojo does not perhaps have quite the same impact, but there are some good contributions from some of the minor characters, especially Conchata Ferrell as Leona, the owner of the restaurant who claims to be in possession of a secret recipe for pizza sauce which she has inherited from her forebears on the Algarve. (And there was me thinking pizza was an Italian dish rather than a Portuguese one). Adam Storke as the spoilt rich boy Charles is the best of the male stars. The film has been described as a romantic comedy, although it does not follow the normal format of the standard Hollywood rom-com. A better description would probably be a coming-of-age story, set against a well-realised background of small- town life. In a traditional romantic comedy the main focus of interest would be Jojo finding the love of her life; here the focus is on all three characters learning lessons about life. As Ebert put it, it's about three girls discovering what their standards for love are going to be. This is not exactly an original theme, but "Mystic Pizza" adds enough original touches to keep it interesting. 6/10

I actually loved the movie Mystic Pizza, i can watch it over and over. I know this may seem weird but i really liked daisy's boyfriend in this but are guys even like that? since i'm only 15 i would know crap all about love lol but was it unrealistic or do guys actually fall in love with you like that. Anyway i loved the movie i loved how close the three girls were and how much fun they all had and how they all found love and lived near the sea i sound cheesy ha ha but yeah it was a good movie it mad me smile and julia roberts looked so pretty in it my fav scene was of her in the black dress with the bow killer body!! i recommend it i really enjoyed it and to this day, i think i'm gonna go watch it hahaha