Mystic Pizza

Mystic Pizza (1988)

  • 78% of critics liked it
    (18 reviews)

  • 53% of users liked it
    (42,117 ratings)

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

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R, 1 hr. 41 min.
Directed By
Donald Petrie
Written By
Amy Holden Jones, Perry Howze
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Oct 1, 1988 Wide
On DVD
Nov 14, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews

    Though the film's heart is in the right place, somehow it all winds up about as flat as one of the celebrated pies at Mystic Pizza. [Blu-ray]

  • Christopher Lloyd, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

    To put it bluntly, Mystic Pizza is more or less a movie version of a soap opera, layered in with some quirky humor and gigantic '80s hair.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    The only novelty of this familiar small-town coming-of-age saga is that its women are Portugueste-American, but it's laced with humor and well-acted, and the gorgeous-looking Julia Roberts shows strong potential for becoming a major star.

  • James Plath, Movie Metropolis

    Coming-of-age story flirts with melodrama but is saved by wonderful performances.

  • James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

    Delightful comedy-drama gave the luminous Roberts her first substantial role

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  • Aaron N


    Daisy: I fucked up. Charles Gordon Windsor, Jr.: Yeah... but you gave it a 100% effort!

  • Jennifer X


    Between this and Now and Then I think have a teen girl drama fetish. I really feel for these sorts of situations, I don't know.

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    CAST: Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor, Conchata Ferrell, William R. Moses, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Stroke, Matt Damon DIRECTED BY: Donald Petrie SUMMARY: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut. MY THOUGHTS: I… More

  • Anthony L


    Hated it then and still don't like it.

  • Alice S


    Brassy and whipsmart. Julia Roberts, at her big-haired, smoldering best.

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