There is a genre known as the Three Girls Movie, in which, you guessed it, three girls learn about Life, which really means Men, and about themselves along the way. There is always a heroine, a naive, vulnerable one who gets hurt, and an eccentric one, who might be either wild or salty. Three Coins In a Fountain is a Three Girls Movie; so is The Best of Everything, and Where The Boys Are (although they threw in Connie Francis as a fourth so that she could sing). How to Marry a Millionaire is also a Three Girls Movie, with the twist that the three girls are grown women -- fashion models -- who already consider themselves fully wised up about Life and Men and find out they are wrong.
Mystic Pizza is a very good Three Girls Movie, notable for launching the careers of the Three Actresses: Julia Roberts, of course, and to a lesser extent Lily Taylor and Annabeth Gish. They play three working class waitresses in a New England fishing town. Gish, the booksmart but naive one, gets seduced and abandoned by an older married man but will go off to Yale better armored against the snares of the world. Taylor, the wild one, finally accepts her place in working class Mystic as the heir apparent to the pizzeria and its secret sauce and the wife of the fisherman who has loved her all along. Roberts, the gorgeous, hot tempered but deeply sensible heroine, finds a rich guy who turns out to be badly flawed, but curably flawed; at the end she is making this spoiled rich pretty boy over into the man who will deserve her. There are no real surprises here (except for one involving a misunderstanding and a parked convertible with the top down), and it's not great art by any means, but it is a very well-executed variation of a reliable formula that should entertain anyone, or at least any female, from 13 on up.
Mystic Pizza is a very good Three Girls Movie, notable for launching the careers of the Three Actresses: Julia Roberts, of course, and to a lesser extent Lily Taylor and Annabeth Gish. They play three working class waitresses in a New England fishing town. Gish, the booksmart but naive one, gets seduced and abandoned by an older married man but will go off to Yale better armored against the snares of the world. Taylor, the wild one, finally accepts her place in working class Mystic as the heir apparent to the pizzeria and its secret sauce and the wife of the fisherman who has loved her all along. Roberts, the gorgeous, hot tempered but deeply sensible heroine, finds a rich guy who turns out to be badly flawed, but curably flawed; at the end she is making this spoiled rich pretty boy over into the man who will deserve her. There are no real surprises here (except for one involving a misunderstanding and a parked convertible with the top down), and it's not great art by any means, but it is a very well-executed variation of a reliable formula that should entertain anyone, or at least any female, from 13 on up.