Talking about boys was a primary source of conversation. Society applied pressure to have a boyfriend. In the 1980s, young women's lives often did circulate around potential romance. While it might be more responsible if one of the girls wasn't focused on romance (for instance, what if Daisy was trying to do Leona's accounting and took a computer course? Or, in trying to get the Fireside Gourmet to review Mystic Pizza, found she had a knack with public relations?), it's not necessarily unrealistic.
Kat's bad experience with Izod Dad ensures her future: the burn gave her maturity and jaded wisdom as she steps into the rest of her life she will become an astronomer and work at NASA, unlikely to fall into another fantasy romance. Even with Daisy breaking up with Charlie and making it clear she'll be fine without him and his money, he comes around the audience know she'll be financially secure and the spitfire of the country club as Mrs. Jojo marries Bill and it's clear Leona will give her the pizza parlor when she retires. The film gives the veneer of the girls being independent '80s women, but in the end, (*SPOILER*), they're no different than Cinderella: their futures become secure because of men (and a "fairy godmother"). Travers and Phoebe's stepmom and all live happily ever after? Will Jojo marry Bill (or talk about something other than Bill)? Will wrong-side-of-the-tracks and "wrong ethnicity" Daisy and rich Aryan princely f-up Charlie survive the odds? Will Yalies Kat and Tim fall in love, Tim leave his wife, Kat become Mrs. about something other than a man), but all three of their stories revolve around a man. Mystic Pizza passes the Bechdel test (contains 1. It's also the decade where the question to high schoolers switched from, "are you going to college?" to "where are you going to college?" When Daisy's mother tells her daughter she's worried about her, and Daisy admits she's also worried about her future, that's the summation of the whole film. Thirty years later, very few American girls are contemplating marriage at this age and the '80s were the decade where this started changing. Despite the offensive marketing (see trailer above), the film is really about the scariest time for a teen: high school is over, adulthood has officially begun, so now what? In many ways, Mystic Pizza is the exception to the rule of how damaging '80s movies could be for teen girls because the film is about young women contemplating their future.
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