FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Julia Roberts - Mystic Pizza 

This is how you feel in the summer after the last school year: breathless. Childhood is officially over, adult life still a mystery. You love and rave like a teenager - with tremendous intensity. But the person you love should not only be perfect, but also good. Love has a lot to do with idealism in this first summer after school. Mystic Pizza takes place in Connecticut, in a place called Mystic. Many people there have their roots in Portugal. Like the three girls (two of them are sisters, the third is the best friend) who work in the pizzeria "Mystic Pizza", which is famous for its special sauce. It all starts when one of the girls leaves her fiancé at the altar. Her name is JoJo Barboza (Lili Taylor) and she is obviously not yet ready for marriage. The reason: Jojo wants sex, but her boyfriend wants to wait until the marriage is consummated. Marry just to get him into bed? Anyway, Jojo knows exactly what her life should look like. She doesn't want to go to college but wants to take over the pizzeria and learn the secret sauce recipe (an old family recipe). The two sisters are named Daisy and Kat Araujo (Julia Roberts and Annabeth Gish). They are drinking a beer in the pub when Daisy sees HIM: Mr. Right. At darts he lands three bull's-eyes in the middle of the disc. Before each throw he drinks a tequila. Should that be an ideal qualification for life? Daisy finds YES and falls in love. We are learning that Daisy falls in love more often than not. But this time Mr. Right is from a rich family, studies law and is called Charles Gordon Winsor (Adam Storke). However, he was expelled from the faculty for cheating and so he now has all the time in the world to play darts. Kat, who is much more down to earth than Daisy, works as a babysitter for an architect. He studied at Yale, she wants to study there in autumn. His name is Tim and his wife is in Eastern Europe. Kat, with the power of idealistic love, throws herself into... Well, what's next? Anyway, she projects herself into Tim's life trying not to think about the absent woman. All of which Mystic Pizza watches with ease. The movie doesn't really go into the big upheavals. Fortunately! And the film even takes a very subtle ethical standpoint: Because Daisy is not stupid. Charles Gordon takes her home to one of her parents' dinners. There, in front of the "better" society, the poor Portuguese girl becomes the victim of a racist joke. Charles Gordon flips out, pulls down the tablecloth with all the food to defend Daisy. But Daisy knows people better than him. She accuses him of orchestrating this embarrassing situation solely for his ego. She tells Charles Gordon he's not good enough for her. Isn't that great? That's how the whole comedy works. So many clichés about three girls and their first summer of high school. Mystic Pizza doesn't use any of them! This is a movie that is really about women and it offers future movie stars like Julia Roberts. Look at how much energy her Daisy has! Who would doubt that Roberts is going to be big soon? Two years later, "Pretty Woman" came out...