Annabeth Gish

Mystic Pizza charts the lives and loves of three Portuguese-American waitresses in a little town called Mystic.

There's the pretty one, Julia Roberts, and her sensible sister, Kat, Annabeth Gish, and their wisecracking friend, Jojo, played by Lily Taylor.

They are slinging pizza at a local restaurant, and the three girls share their hopes and dreams and plans for escaping their small town.

The movie is funny.

And it has no confidence.

Annabeth Gish.

Yeah.

I've loved her ever since that movie.

It was written by David Weisberg and Douglas Cook and stars Tommy Lee Jones, the great Tommy Lee Jones, one of the best character actors out there, I think.

Ashley Judd, Jay Brazow, Bruce Greenwood being an absolute dick, and Annabeth Gish.

It's directed by Bruce Beresford, and the synopsis is after being jailed for her husband's murder, she didn't do it.

A woman learns that he's still alive.

I mean, I was a big X-Files fan, so I definitely remember him on that.

And both he and Annabeth Gish, who were the two that came in as replacements, I mean, they had impossible jobs to do on that show, and they both did as good a job as you possibly could.

Yeah.

coming in, trying to replace David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, which is just, yeah, it was impossible.

We meet Trish.

We meet Annabelle Gish.

Smashing pumpkins.

Is that? Wait.

Yeah, her name in the movie is Trish.

Trish,

Annabelle Gish, Monica Reyes.

One of the three.

And with that revelation, Monica flees from the room.

I'm going to say old Val Barrero and Stephen Murdoch are acting circles around Annabeth Gish in that moment.

Poor Annabeth.

She's never going to come on this show.

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little much.

And it's not fair to Annabeth Gish because you're right.

It's script and it's direction.

We get the school.

We know that Angie, who is played by Annabeth Gish, works there.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and we're also introduced to a family friend, a lawyer, Bobby, who is played by Jay Brazeau, and, like, all of this is just totally seamless.

Oh

... of this? Because we do learn that Angie is his regular babysitter.

Honestly, Angie and Annabeth Gish are, I think, the most underserved.

Oh, criminally underused.

top to bottom this movie has a bunch of like pieces to make like a competent film like all of this we've had it before where it's kind of like okay this is the level of your wwe casting budgets very much uh the come the condemned you know like that type of casting here like they have actors who are working actors who have like been working actors for several decades you know winter

annabeth gish is like in mike flanagan's stable like he uses her all the time you see like kevin corgan's been in a bunch like judd apatow movies i think it was freaks and geeks and these are like when i was looking at this stuff that the actors in this i was like really

Again, this is helmed by a director who has had numerous big-budget projects and has directed several award-winning actors, too.

This is an actual film crew, and it's given to Triple H.

Oh, yeah.

Jesus Christ.

he goes back to Annabeth Gish.

He's like, what do I gotta do to take a step so that I can talk to my dog? And he keeps like quoting the book and, um, the self-help doctor.

Not so much leaps, but...

I hate to pile on to the Annabeth Gish hate train or whatever, but I think, A, it's a terrible script.

Yes, that is the downfall.

B, I think I can point at the director in this case to say that I don't think he gave her a lot.