Mystic Pizza
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| Directed by | Donald Petrie |
| Produced by | Mark Levinson Scott Rosenfelt |
| Screenplay by | Amy Holden Jones Perry Howze Randy Howze Alfred Uhry |
| Story by | Amy Holden Jones |
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| Music by | David McHugh |
| Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
| Edited by | Don Brochu Marion Rothman |
| Distributed by | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $12.8 million |
Mystic Pizza is a 1988 American coming-of-age film directed by Donald Petrie, and stars Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts and Lili Taylor. It marked Matt Damon's film debut.
Although the film did not perform as well as expected at the box office, it gained a large cult following since its release and received relatively positive reviews by film critics, who praised the performances by the three lead actresses.
The film is about the coming of age of two sisters and their friend through the romantic lives of the three main characters: Kat Arujo (Annabeth Gish), Daisy Arujo (Julia Roberts), and Jojo Barbosa (Lili Taylor), who are waitresses at Mystic Pizza in Mystic, Connecticut. In the film, Mystic is represented as a fishing town with a large Portuguese-American population. The film also touches on an Old World work ethic.
Kat and Daisy are sisters and rivals: Kat studies astronomy, works at the planetarium in the famous Whaling Museum of The Mystic Seaport, as well as the restaurant, and has been accepted to attend Yale University on a partial scholarship. Daisy just wants to find love through lust while trying to get out of Mystic. Kat is the apple of her Portuguese mother's eye, while Daisy is not because her mother feels she is more wild and is not as goal-oriented as her younger sister.
Daisy meets a handsome young man named Charles (Adam Storke) at a bar, and the two are immediately attracted to each other, and begin a relationship, much to her mother's dismay, believing that the relationship will prevent her making something of herself like Kat. However, at a family dinner, his relatives unintentionally make insensitive comments about her ethnicity, and Charles overreacts. Daisy breaks up with him, believing that his family's remarks were harmless and that he was simply using her to show up his parents.
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