Coming Soon (1999 film)
Coming Soon is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Colette Burson and written by Burson and Kate Robin. Starring Bonnie Root, Gaby Hoffmann, Tricia Vessey and Ryan Reynolds, it has been described as a female-centric American Pie.
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| Directed by | Colette Burson |
| Produced by | Keven Duffy Beau Flynn Stefan Simchowitz |
| Written by | Colette Burson Kate Robin |
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| Music by | Christophe Beck |
| Cinematography | Joaquín Baca-Asay |
| Edited by | Norman Buckley |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | Unapix Entertainment Productions |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,453[1] |
Plot
Three wealthy, savvy high school seniors, Stream Hodsell, a smart, down-to-earth strawberry blonde, sassy Jenny Simon, who masks her intelligence behind a guise of fishnet stockings, and soulful Nell Kellner attend the prestigious and expensive Halton School in Manhattan and have everything - brains, beauty, money, popularity, powerful parents and boyfriends like Chad and garage band musician Henry Lipschitz. 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. Judy Hodsell is Stream's distracted ex-hippie mom, Dick Hodsell is her yuppie father with a new young girlfriend, Mimi, and Mr. Jennings is a feel-good career counselor.
Cast
- Bonnie Root as Stream Hodsell
- Gaby Hoffmann as Jenny Simon
- Tricia Vessey as Nell Kellner
- Ryan Reynolds as Henry Rockefeller Lipschitz
- Yasmine Bleeth as Mimi
- Mia Farrow as Judy Hodsell
- Ryan O'Neal as Dick
- James Roday as Chad
- Spalding Gray as Mr. Jennings
- Peter Bogdanovich as Bartholomew
- Bridget Barkan as Polly
- Ramsey Faragallah as Wahid
- Ashton Kutcher as Louie
- James McCaffrey as Dante
- Victor Argo as Mr. Neipris
Reception
The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 29% score based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 4.5/10.[2] Metacritic reports a 44 out of 100 rating based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]