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Mystic Pizza (1988)

Director: Donald Petrie

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From Time Out Film Guide

Jojo, Daisy and Kat are pizza-pushers who live in Mystic, on the Connecticut coast. Jojo (Taylor) is carrying on a stormy romance with a redneck fisherman. Daisy (Roberts), a bit of a social climber, is having an affair with the owner of a throbbing red Porsche. And good old Kat (Gish), soon to start studying astronomy at Yale, is about to have a bad case of babysitter blues. Each of these women, through being used and abused by men, achieves some kind of self-realisation. If the plot (by Amy Jones) sounds pedestrian and pat, it is. However, thanks to sensitive direction by Petrie, the result is a thoroughly involving movie that doesn't resort to violence, sex or schmaltz to pack an emotional punch. Petrie imbues the Portuguese-dominated fishing village with a real sense of place, and the three female leads (Gish in particular) are excellent.

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Time Out Film Guide

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  • vicorylie quijano said...
    Posted on Nov 11 2007 04:41 this show is old I know, but it is a nice one. When I watch it it was a very sad movie(well in some parts) and it brought me crying while I was watching it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cast & crew

Director: Donald Petrie

Producer: Mark Levinson, Scott Rosenfelt

Cast: Vincent Philip D'Onofrio, Annabeth Gish, William R Moses, Julia Roberts, Adam Storke, Lili Taylor, Conchata Ferrell, Porscha Radcliffe, Joanna Merlin, Arthur Walsh, Matt Damon full cast

Duration: 104 mins


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