Mystic
Hehe I live in Mystic and it is very weird to see sights in a movie that I see everyday.
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Is it a nice place to live? I've always wanted to visit the town and try the pizza!
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Mystic is an awesome place to live!!!! I LOVE it!!!
shareI must go and visit!! By the way in the movie it showed a local bar called the "peg leg pub" is that a real pub in mystic?
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I have never seen a pub called the peg leg pub. There are several pubs in mystic though so it could be that but the named might have changed.
shareI grew up in Stonington Ct. wich is the next town over fron Mystic.
I can tell you that the pub to wich you refered is real and is located in Stonington. If you look close as the girls are outside steeling Bill's truck, you will see that the pub is under a bridge. This bridge is famouse to all locals and is called the viaduct. It is the only road that leads into the village of Stonington. I love to wach the movie and see friends that I grew up with as extras in it. By the way, in that same seen there is a shot of the inside of the pub. The guy sitting at the bar with the mustache is a friend of mine who just happens to be full blood Potuguise.
Thanks for the info. That's just too cool that people you grew up with are extras in the movie. I'm definitely going to have to pay more attention to the scenes you've mention. I first got the movie because I'm a huge Vincent D'Onofrio fan but I completely fell in love with the movie itself. Hopefully I'll be able to take a trip to Mystic and Stonington soon at least by spring!
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I live in Mystic too, not far from Mystic Pizza. To tell the truth, I don't much care for their pizza, but its ok. I've actually never seen the movie (I know, I really should). My 6th grade reading teacher was an extra in it. He even got to dance with Julia Roberts, but they cut the scene out. I think he said he's in a scene at the end though.
shareThat's pretty cool. you're teacher must of been in the wedding scene. It's a pretty good movie for the 80's lol.
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im going to make it my aim in life to visit Mystic and have a pizza...what do you reckon??
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I do reckon LOL! I definitely will have to visit even if I'm 80 yrs old in a wheelchair and have to drink the pizza through a straw! I'm going lol.
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Y'all should come to Mystic, come either in June/July or December around Christmas, thats when Mystic is the prettiest!
"If it aint country, it aint music!"
I bet fall is really pretty too. I'll have to try and visit in june by my birthday.
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I live in Mystic on the Groton side, did anyone else who lives in mystic have nightsmares about the bridge when they were little or was that just me? lol and dont you just hate it when the Stonington High and Fitch High Kids fight on the boardwalk lol its funny as hell to watch. Go Fitch!
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GGrrr, those drawbridge dreams! Stonighton's band has ugly marching uniforms! GO FITCH!!!
"If it aint country, it aint music!"
I lived in Mystic from 1984 to 1991 (I moved there when the Crystal Mall opened in Waterford to manage one of the stores) and I lived on the Groton side, as well. The only nightmare I can remember is when they closed all of Main St. all day to film that one scene by the bridge. That scene probably lasted less than a minute and to get to the other side of town that day, I had to drive out to I-95 and go down to Exit 90. By the way, there was a fire on Main St. in about 2000 and since I've been out of the area for about six years, I was just wodering when that area was repaired.
shareI've been to Mystic once in 2000 and loved it. Really cute place to visit for the wknd or even a day trip. From what I heard, there are 2 Mystic Pizza Parlors in Mystic (1's in downtown & the other's in Stonington, a nearby town). I went to the one downtown & the pizza was AWESOME (cheese was so fresh & everything else was very yummy, too). They also have a good ice cream place down the block from the pizza place. If I remember correctly, downtown Mystic is right by the docks, so if you go on a day w/nice weather, everything's very nice & relaxing. There's also an aquarium and other tourist attractions nearby.
Been wanting to go back, but haven't had a chance since then ... Soon, hopefully!
Yeah, I live in Hartford but I've been to Mystic a lot. I think you are talking about Mystic Drawbridge Icecream? That's very close to Mystic Pizza (downtown) and is only a minute walk from where they were filmimg. Also, you guys probably know this but you can buy Mystic Pizza frozen at some grocery stores in Connecticut. Obviously, the pizza is better fresh, but it's kind of cool to buy it frozen.
shareMystic Pizza inside is nothing like in the movie, though. Just the exterior was used in the film.
shareThat's really nice to know.
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Actually, the movie mock up version of the Pizza Parlor was located on Water Street in Stonington Village. Most of the film was shot in that area (including the "Peg a Leg" pub scenes which is now a Bar & Grille located right under the viaduct-looks much smaller in person) and Pawcatuck (the Arujo house was renovated to fit the production designers plans and remodeled back to it's original form after filming was completed.).
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i've been to Mystic too.Its lovely there !
i was going to move but i changed my mind on the last minute (Thank god,otherwise i wasn't g oing to meet to my hubby) :-)
But still,i would like to live there,better than Milano (Italia) :-P
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I've always loved this movie. Never been to Mystic, but I've wanted to go. I'd love to try the pizza, being Portuguese myself. I'm from an oceanside town and my brother was a commercial fisherman for years. It cracked me up that they didn't like lobster, even though it was such a delicacy to everyone else. It's like yeah so what, we have that all the time. :)
One weird thing, the HR Director where I work is the spittin image of Lili Taylor. When I first met her, I said "Has anyone ever told you.." and she said "I know, Lili Taylor". :)
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Thanks for the info - I've been a fan of the movie for years and always wondered where specific scenes were shot. It looked to me like the Arujo house and JoJo's house were right next to each other, and that the houses overlooked the water. Do you know what street in Pawcatuck those houses were on?
Next time I get to the area I want to do a tour of "where scenes were shot". :)
Thanks!
"Do you know what street in Pawcatuck those houses were on?"
Mechanic Street.
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what i find odd is suposedly
The Writer of the Screen Play is from The Groton/Mystic Area and went to Fitch in the 70's
at the same time my Mother went and her older Sister
Guess what there names Are :)
I went to Fitch Middle School once
shareI live here in Mystic and I have to say that Mystic Pizza is just OK. In the summer there are always people getting tere photo taken in front if it but down the street Angies pizza is much nicer. GO STONINGTON! :-p
shareMystic is such a cute little town. I went to there on a field trip last year. We went to "Old Mystic Village" and it was really cute there with lots of nice shops. I didn't get to go to Mystic Pizza though.
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shareI live in Stonington but I hang out in downtown Mystic all the time. I love the pizza at Mystic Pizza, but the pizza at Stonington Pizza is even better. For everyone who doesn't know, the scenes shot inside the restaurant in the movie were not shot inside the actual Mystic Pizza, but were actually shot inside the restaurant One South in Stonington. They have done some major expansion on Mystic Pizza since the film was made in 1988. It is about 3 or 4 times bigger now. Everybody should come and visit Mystic at some point in their lives. The seaport is amazing, as is the aquarium. Of course, everyone should try a slice of heaven from the real Mystic Pizza.
shareThe "inside" scenes look like they were shot at the building on Water St. near Skipper's Dock. When the camera is pointed out the window, you can see the columns in the building across the street that now houses a froo-froo antique store. That building is certainly where the outside location of the shop was shot.
One South (now Zack's) was the location for the PegLeg pub.
One other posting identified The Misquamicut Club as the country club scene. I agree. I played golf there this year and recognized the stonework. My daughter actually worked there tending bar this summer.
Another movie-related bit of info: Peter Benchley, the author of "Jaws" lived until a year ago or so ago only a block away from that Water St. location in Stonington Borough. I heard he had wanted Stonington to be the location for Jaws, but the logistics of production in the 1700s-era narrow streets was too problematic. May be true, may be not.
By the way, very detailed point of info here: Mystic is not a town unto itself, but a hazily defined section of two different towns, Groton and Stonington. The Mystic River, over which the drawbridge stands is the border of the two towns. I live in Stonington in the Quiambaug area, almost in Mystic.
The word "Mystic" is a corruption of the Pequot word "missituck", which means tidal river.
The "real" Mystic Pizza is on the Groton side on West Main St. I like the pizza, but they've expanded again and I think the quality may have suffered. By the way, just around the corner from the real place is a great little Irish pub, the Harp and Hound. Walk down the hill from Mystic Pizza toward the drawbridge and take your first left on Pearl St. It's on your right, the second door down. The "other" shop, Mystic Pizza II, is in North Stonington, yet another different town.
So there's a pile of largely useless, but hopefully entertaining trivia.
-J
The exteriors were shot two buildings before Skipper's Dock on Water Street. The facade still pretty much looks the same but they've altered the entrance door on a 45 degree angle. Last I knew, the building appeared vacated. If you go to the back of the same building, there's a staircase that leads to a deck which looks like the place where they shot the final scene.
I know the film's extras were "held" at Skipper's Dock. I also know the residents of Stonington were a bit weary of the film crew during the shoot (the Borough is pretty tight but looks like "classic maritime New England").
That is interesting about Peter Benchley.
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Mystic looks alot like the town I grew up in and now moved back to in Edmonds, Washington. Small waterfront town with small shops and restaurants. I'd like to visit Mystic some day....... BTW Some guys like this movie too. I do!
shareMystic looks a lot like the town I grew up in and now moved back to in Edmonds, Washington. Small waterfront town with small shops and restaurants. I'd like to visit Mystic some day......
Five years later comes a reply, but this is for everyone who reads this board. I lived in Westerly, RI (just across the river from Pawcatuck, CT), for three years and I'm very familiar with the area:
Mystic is a tourist town that attracts people because of the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Aquarium and Olde Mystick Village. If you go there, expect crowds (especially in summer) and a 'chain store' polish that erodes the charm.
Stonington Borough, where much of the "Mystic Pizza" movie was shot, is, on the other hand, a quaint and charming 17th century enclave with narrow streets and a patina that cannot be matched. There is only one way in and one way out over a bridge. While there is little that is "touristy" in the Borough, you need to see it if you're going to the area because you liked the movie "Mystic Pizza," since that's where much of the movie was shot. Stonington Borough is much more like Edmonds, WA than Mystic is (yes I've been in Edmonds, too).
Shoots from Mystic Pizza also took place in Pawcatuck, CT, and Westerly and Misquamicut in Rhode Island (both a short distance from Stonington, CT), but I can't identify the specific scenes. You might want to check those places out too if you're in the area.
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