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
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1988 | Running Time: 101 minutes
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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
- Annabeth Gish - Kat Araujo
- Julia Roberts - Daisy Araujo
- Lili Taylor - Jojo Barboza
- Vincent D'Onofrio - Bill Montijo
- William R. Moses - Tim Travers
- Gene Amoroso - Mr. Ed Barboza
- Matt Damon - Steamer
- Al Hodgkins - Priest
- Suzanne Shepherd - Aunt Tweedy
- Arthur Walsh - Manny
- Lew Resseguie - Maitre D'
- Jody Raymond - Teresa
- Wiley Moore - Newscaster
- Ann Flood - Polly Windsor
- Donald Petrie - Director
- Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. - Executive Producer
- Susan Vogelfang - Producer
- Scott Rosenfelt - Producer
- Mark Levinson - Producer
- Joanne Pagliaro - Screenwriter
- Alfred Uhry - Screenwriter
- Amy Jones - Screenwriter
- Randy Howze - Screenwriter
- Perry Howze - Screenwriter
- Mark Haack - Art Director
- Jane Jenkins - Casting
- Janet Hirshenson - Casting
- Jennifer Von Mayrhauser - Costume Designer











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