Coming Soon (1999 film)

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Coming Soon (1999)
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

Coming Soon is a 1999 American romantic comedy that stars Bonnie Root, Mia Farrow, and Gaby Hoffmann.

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.

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.

Cast

• Ashton Kutcher as Louie
• Bonnie Root as Stream Hodsell
• Bridget Barkan as Polly
• Dmitry Lipkin as Young Teacher
• Ellen Pompeo as Upset Girl
• Gaby Hoffmann as Jenny Simon
• James McCaffrey as Dante
• James Roday as Chad
• Mia Farrow as Judy Hodsell
• Peter Bogdanovich as Bartholomew
• Ramsey Faragallah as Wahid
• Rhasaan Orange as Sincere Boy
• Ryan O'Neal as Dick
• Ryan Reynolds as Henry Lipschitz
• Spalding Gray as Mr. Jennings
• Timothy Stickney as Suave Man
• Tricia Vessey as Nell Kellner
• Victor Argo as Mr. Neipris
• Yasmine Bleeth as Mimi

Production credits

• Beau Flynn, Keven Duffy and Stefan Simchowitz (Producers)
• Colette "Clotte" Burson (Director and writer)
• E. Bennett Walsh (Co-producer)
• Kate Robin (writer)
• Thomas Augsberger and Matthias Emcke (Executive producers)

Ratings controversy

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][2][3]

References

1. ^ http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/07/09/pie/index.html
2. ^ Taubin, Amy "The Pleasure Police" Village Voice, 3 August 1999, p. 57.
3. ^ Schillinger, Leisel "Exile in Guyville" New York Magazine, 21 June 1999, p. 15.

External links

• Coming Soon at AllRovi
• Coming Soon at the Internet Movie Database
• Coming Soon at Rotten Tomatoes