Mystic Pizza

Fantastic 80's fare. Well, fantastic in that if close your eyes now, and imagine an 80's movie (not a specific movie, but "any" movie), you will be imagining Mystic Pizza. Big hair. Cheesy romantic lines. The knowing smile as you turn straight into the camera. The revenge hi-jinks (dumping fish into a convertible porsche). Growing up and finding yourself. Learning a bit more about your family and what really matters. All this in full blown 80's style. Young Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Lili Taylor. It is strange how a decade can result in a visual style that is recognizable, and clearly not marketable "today". But perhaps it is only strange because I was alive in that decade. The fact that films of the 50's have a style doesn't surprise me at all. I wonder what nostalgic view today's movies will present 30 years from now. Will we say that the CGI is so 2000's, or will we remember the stylized action, or proliferation of bio-pics, or that an entire generation learned its history from historical fiction film. Ask me in 2039.
3-stars