FILM 1383: MYSTIC PIZZA
TRIVIA: Debut theatrical feature
film of actor-writer Matt Damon.Ben Affleck also
auditioned for the film.
Mystic Pizza is a real pizza
parlor, located at 55 West Main St. in Mystic, Connecticut. Writer Amy Holden Jones was
vacationing in Mystic one summer, saw the pizza parlor and was inspired to
write the story. After the movie came out, the real Mystic Pizza shop became so
popular, lines would stretch to the sidewalk and patrons would regularly steal
mementos from the restaurant.
Breakthrough film role of American
actress Julia Roberts.
Liam Neeson, who had
co-starred with Julia Roberts
whilst making Satisfaction
(1988), visited the set of this picture. The pair had allegedly had a personal
relationship on that earlier movie. Roberts then allegedly started seeing one
of the grips whilst filming Mystic Pizza
(1988).
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