Coming Soon
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| Coming Soon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Colette Burson |
| Produced by | Keven Duffy Beau Flynn Stefan Simchowitz |
| Written by | Colette Burson Kate Robin |
| Starring | Bonnie Root Gaby Hoffmann Tricia Vessey James Roday Mia Farrow Bridget Barkan Ramsey Faragallah Ashton Kutcher |
| Music by | Christophe Beck |
| Distributed by | Unapix Entertainment Productions 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | May 12, 2000 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Coming Soon is a 1999 American romantic comedy that stars Bonnie Root, Mia Farrow, and Gaby Hoffmann.
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[edit] Plot
Three wealthy, savvy high school seniors, Stream Hodsell (Bonnie Root), a smart, down-to-earth strawberry blonde, sassy Jenny Simon (Gaby Hoffmann), who masks her intelligence behind a guise of fishnet stockings, and soulful Nell Kellner (Tricia Vessey) attend the prestigious and expensive Halton School in Manhattan and have everything - brains, beauty, money, popularity, powerful parents, and boyfriends like Chad (James Roday) and a garage band musician, Henry Rockefeller Lipschitz (Ryan Reynolds). They have it all but are still unfulfilled.
After losing her virginity without obtaining sexual satisfaction, Stream is confused as well as unfulfilled and studies the problem with self-help books, women's magazines and the comically misinformed advice of her peers. Even though they are on a quest for sexual fulfillment, the movie does not resort to obscenity, nudity or crudeness.
Judy Hodsell (Mia Farrow) is Stream's distracted ex-hippie mom, Dick Hodsell (Ryan O'Neal) is her yuppie father with a new young girlfriend, Mimi (Yasmine Bleeth), and Mr. Jennings (Spalding Gray) is a feel-good career counselor.
[edit] Cast
- Bonnie Root as Stream Hodsell
- Gaby Hoffmann as Jenny Simon
- Mia Farrow as Judy Hodsell
- Tricia Vessey as Nell Kellner
- James Roday as Chad
- Bridget Barkan as Polly
- Ramsey Faragallah as Wahid
- Yasmine Bleeth as Mimi
- Spalding Gray as Mr. Jennings
- Ryan Reynolds as Henry Lipschitz
- Peter Bogdanovich as Bartholomew
- Ashton Kutcher as Louie
- Rhasaan Orange as Sincere Boy
- Victor Argo as Mr. Neipris
- Timothy Stickney as Suave Man
- Ryan O'Neal as Dick
- James McCaffrey as Dante
- Dmitry Lipkin as Young Teacher
- Ellen Pompeo as Upset Girl
[edit] Production credits
- Colette "Clotte" Burson (Director and writer)
- Kate Robin (writer)
- Beau Flynn, Keven Duffy and Stefan Simchowitz (Producers)
- Thomas Augsberger and Matthias Emcke (Executive producers)
- E. Bennett Walsh (Co-producer)
[edit] Trivia
The high school which the main character attends, Halton, is obviously based on The Dalton School, an elite private school in Manhattan.
This movie became the center of a controversy over gender-biased ratings when the MPAA Ratings gave this film the "NC-17" rating shortly after giving the far racier American Pie an "R" rating. [1]
For more information about the controversy, see:
- Taubin, Amy "The Pleasure Police" Village Voice, 3 August, 1999, p. 57.
- Schillinger, Leisel "Exile in Guyville" New York Magazine, 21 June, 1999, p. 15.
