Mystic Pizza is a 1988 coming-of-age film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, and Lili Taylor. The film's tagline is: "A romantic comedy with the works."
The film is about the coming of age of two sisters and their friend, as seen through the romantic lives of the three main characters: Katy, Daisy, and Jojo, who all work as waitresses at Mystic Pizza in Mystic, Connecticut. Mystic in the film is represented as a ...
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Mystic Pizza is a 1988 coming-of-age film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, and Lili Taylor. The film's tagline is: "A romantic comedy with the works."
The film is about the coming of age of two sisters and their friend, as seen through the romantic lives of the three main characters: Katy, Daisy, and Jojo, who all work as waitresses at Mystic Pizza in Mystic, Connecticut. Mystic in the film is represented as a fishing town with a large Portuguese American population, though that description more closely resembles neighboring Stonington, Connecticut, where many scenes were filmed.
The movie also touches on an Old World work ethic. Katy and Daisy are sisters and rivals; the former studies astronomy, works at a local planetarium, as well as the restaurant, and has been accepted to attend Yale University, while the latter just wants to have sex. Katy is the apple of her Portuguese mother's eye, while Daisy is not: she is promiscuous and is not as goal...
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