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Food Movies We Love: Mystic PizzaPosted May 25th 2006 2:02PM by Anne MetzFiled under: Dinner, East Coast, Restaurants, Food Oddities, AmericaYesterday I posted about how much I like Big Night, and I was pleasantly surprised to see I'm not alone on that. Another food flick that's worth spending some time with is the 1988 movie Mystic Pizza. Sure, it's got Julia Roberts fairly early in her career, but it's got two other actors who never get the props they're due: Vincent D'Onofrio (the guy from Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Ed Wood) and Annabeth Gish (whom you may remember from the later seasons of the X-Files).How to describe it? Hmmm ... sort of a coming-of-age movie where the local pizza (our three heroines work at the pizzeria) does some magical things. I shudder to think how this was pitched to the film execs ("think chick flick meets pizza flick set in the Northeast ... no, no, not the de-industrialized Northeast, the quaint Northeast!"), but I'm glad it exists.
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