• > Home
  • > Movies
  • > Mystic Pizza
  • > Overview
  • Mystic Pizza

    Mystic Pizza


    MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1988 | Running Time: 101 minutes


    Sorry, this item is not available from ARTISTdirect.

    Three teenagers learn a lot about life and love one summer in this romantic comedy-drama. Kat (Annabeth Gish), Daisy (Julia Roberts), and Jojo (Lili Taylor) are three working-class women just out of high school who have jobs at the same pizza parlor in the resort community of Mystic, Connecticut. ...more

    Her first major film role didn't make Julia Roberts a star, but Mystic Pizza did make great use of the actress' earthy sensuality and onscreen charisma. Playing one of a trio of working-class young women in coastal New England, Roberts provided the va-va-voom to Lili Taylor's quirkiness and Annabeth Gish's quiet intensity. Decidedly matriarchal and working-class in its depictions of these young characters' lives, the film uses the pizza parlor of kindly Leona (Conchata Ferrell) as a symbol of ...more



    Tickets & Showtimes