Mystic Pizza is a
1988 coming-of-age film directed by
Donald Petrie and starring
Annabeth Gish,
Julia Roberts, and
Lili Taylor. The film's tagline is: "
A romantic comedy with the works."
Plot
The film is about the coming of age of two sisters and their friend, as seen through the romantic lives of the three main characters: Kat, Daisy, and Jojo, who all work as waitresses at Mystic Pizza in
Mystic, Connecticut. Mystic in the film is represented as a fishing town with a large
Portuguese American population, though that description more closely resembles neighboring
Stonington, Connecticut, where many scenes were filmed.