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Mystic Pizza (1988)

Donald Petrie directs a very young Julia Roberts (Daisy), Annabeth Gish (Kat, Daisy’s sister) and Lili Taylor (Jojo, their friend) in a romantic comedy set in and around a pizzeria in Mystic, Connecticut. The girls are teenagers and as summer turns to fall they are all on the brink of changes. College beckons off screen. And love—though sometimes it stumbles onto the screen as well.

The plot is full of slapstick comedy and very broad, snappy humour.

But the performances, from an almost unknown cast at that time, are solid and work well together.

The film is also notable for being the very first appearance of Matt Damon in a feature film, in a minor rich kid role. He was 18. The pizza functions as an attractive plot device (there is a restaurant food reviewer who is significant to moving the story forward) and I did get hungry rewatching this.

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