page_title: Mystic Pizza
section_title: Production and filming locations
hierarchical_section_title: Mystic Pizza / Production and filming locations
caption_attribution_description: English: 70 Water Street, Stonington, CT, filming location for "Mystic Pizza"
context_page_description: Mystic Pizza is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, and Lili Taylor.
  The film marked Petrie's feature film directorial debut and Matt Damon's film debut. The film has gained a large cult following since its release.
context_section_description: The title of the film was inspired by a pizza shop in Mystic, Connecticut. Screenwriter Amy Holden Jones was summering in the area and chose Mystic Pizza as the focus of her story about the lives of three young waitresses.
  Jones was set to direct, but was replaced by Petrie, who made his feature film directorial debut. The film was also Alfred Uhry's screenwriting debut.
  Filming began October 12, 1987 and was due to last six weeks. The film's plot is set in Mystic, but most of the filming locations were in neighboring towns. The building used for the pizza restaurant was a converted home in Stonington Borough at 70 Water St. After the film's release, the real-life Mystic Pizza building in downtown Mystic was renovated to resemble the film set. The Windsor family home, the wedding reception restaurant, the Peg Leg Pub pool hall, and the fishing docks were also filmed in Stonington Borough. The hitchhiking incident takes place on North Main Street in Stonington Town. The Araújo home is in Pawcatuck, Connecticut; the lobster business and the wedding church are in Noank, Connecticut. Tim Travers' home and the Windsors' country club are in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The most notable scenes that take place in Mystic were filmed at the Mystic Seaport planetarium and at the Mystic River Bascule Bridge.
caption: 70 Water Street in Stonington. Filming location for the Mystic Pizza restaurant
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