'Mystic Pizza' Reunion Has Us Craving the '80s All Over Again

Twenty-five years after Kat and Daisy Araujo slung pies and broke hearts in "Mystic Pizza," the original cast came together for a surprise reunion in this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly. The fresh intel we learned about the little-movie-that-could is pretty delicious: Julia Roberts' favorite part of the shoot was tipping barrels of fish into the Ferrari of fancy-boy Charles Gordon Windsor Jr. (played by Adam Storke), actor Vincent D'Onofrio signed on to the project because he considered actress Annabeth Gish to be a "baby Katherine Hepburn," and Matt Damon made one of his first film appearances as a spoiled preteen brat. The EW reunion left us hungry for more—more behind-the-scenes secrets, more big hair, more trivia about the stars before they were famous, and more of that movie magic left behind in the '80s film canon. Here, some little-known gems about "Mystic Pizza" and other teen movies that helped make us the grown-ups we are today. — Charlotte Rudge, Shine Staff