Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54112 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-09-12
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly Good
I really enjoyed the story, and found the cast to be excellent! This movie is really one for girls, since I'm pretty sure guys would have a hard time relating to the main theme. Also, the music from this movie was really good! I would definlately recommend this movie to any girl in high school or college!

"American Pie 2: The Pie Strikes Back!"
An absolutely charming entry in the coming-of-age field. Donot be fooled by the.. cover; this is not in any way, shape, or form exploitative. Instead, it is an intelligent, funny, and thoughtful exploration of the lives and minds of three priviliged NYC teenage girls (the location of this film is quite similar to the Upper East Side location of "Cruel Intentions"). We follow the three girls (a foul-mouthed Gaby Hoffman among them) through their various romantic, familial and, yes, sexual tribulations... All of the performances are excellent, and the star-studded supporting cast includes Mia Farrow, Peter Bogdanovich, Yasmine Bleeth, and Spalding Gray. Like a junior "Sex and the City", there is quite a bit of mature (if graphic) sex talk; nonetheless, this is a film that every 15 - 21 year old girl should see. Oh, and you guys who are big fans of "Drop Dead Gorgeous", "Dick", and other girlcentric teen flicks will love it too. In closing, "Coming Soon" is arguably the smartest, most mature and most underrated teen flick of the past decade. If "Slums of Beverly Hills" was riot-grrrl cinema, then this movie is pure cinematic Bikini Kill.

Shocked, Surprised, and Pleased
I liked this movie because I had no idea what it was going to be about. Some of the names were familiar and the story seemed interesting. I found myself laughing hysterically at the girls obvious immaturity and innocence to what "real" pleasure is. It's a story about three girls getting to know more about who they are as they grow up and learning not to always follow the crowd.