Coming Soon
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381949629
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 12, 2000
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 90197
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Description:
It's all about feeling good. Three savvy, street smart, terminally hip seniors at a tony Manhattan prep school have it all: brains, beauty, their own therapists, powerful parents, Prozac, and trophy boyfriends. With placements assured at the top Ivy League schools, the girls attend penthouse parties and club-hop at the coolest downtown haunts. They rule their school and their destinies, but still find themselves unfulfilled. Their quest for satisfaction leads them through self-help books, their classmates, the personal ads, and a hot tub in this unusually frank and funny depiction of young women coming of age.
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Described as American Pie for girls, Coming Soon is a cute, sweet, but often bland and familiar coming-of-age sex comedy. Set in an exclusive New York prep school, where more time is spent in college admission strategies than actually going to class, it's about the quest for the elusive orgasm and true love, in that order. Bonnie Root is a real find as the spunky, naive high school virgin in a hurry to catch up with her worldly best friends (haughty Gaby Hoffmann and moody Tricia Vessey). There's a bit of Clueless tossed in when Root is attracted to a shaggy new-age beatnik and garage band musician (the amiable Ryan Reynolds, looking like a young Val Kilmer), a move her status-conscious classmates find decidedly uncool. The laughs come from easy targets: Mia Farrow as Root's distracted flower child mom, Ryan O'Neal the very image of midlife crisis as her yuppie father with a new young girlfriend (Yasmin Bleeth, laying on the immaturity a little thick), and Spalding Gray the master of understatement as a feel-good career counselor. It's nice to see the sex comedy formula from a girl's perspective, and Colette Burson seems to know her milieu, but it's the girls and their adolescent confusion that make it work. --Sean Axmaker
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- A Star is BornThe young and talented Ms. Bonnie Root gives an all star performance in this coming of age comedy. ... Read More
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- Surprisingly GoodI really enjoyed the story, and found the cast to be excellent! This movie is really one for girls, ... Read More
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- CORNYThis film, if you can actually call it that sghould have been a 10minute short. It is a 90 minute watered ... Read More
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