Yesterday 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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5-25-2006 @2:43PM Myron said... My favorite food movie is "Eat Drink Man Woman"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111797/
Also good is "Babette's Feast"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092603/
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5-25-2006 @7:08PM Kristen said... I just have to add this: the pizza at the real mystic Pizza is wonderful. If you're ever in Mystic, Connecticut, make sure you check it out.
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5-25-2006 @9:15PM Miranda said... What a great chick flick! I haven't seen this one in ages. Must add it to the Netflix queue.
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5-25-2006 @9:36PM lori said... I loved that movie! All I can say is that after watching it, I had this insane craving for pizza!
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6-01-2006 @8:37AM Kris said... Tampopo!
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