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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 Ryan Reynolds Ryan O'Neal Mia Farrow |
Music by | Christophe Beck |
Distributed by | Unapix Entertainment Productions 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Coming Soon is a 1999 American romantic comedy film and is also Ashton Kutcher's debut role.
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.
This film 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.