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. It marked Ashton Kutcher's film debut.
Plot
Three wealthy, savvy high school seniors have everything: brains, beauty, money, popularity, powerful parents, and boyfriends. Stream Hodsell is a smart, down-to-earth strawberry blonde. Sassy Jenny Simon masks her intelligence behind a guise of fishnet stockings. Nell Kellner is soulful. The girls attend the prestigious and expensive Halton School in Manhattan.
After losing her virginity to Chad without obtaining sexual satisfaction, Stream is confused, as is it was not as amazing as she expected it to be. Jenny and Nell assure her it will improve over time, so she keeps trying. Jennifer's mom tells them that many women suffer from rarely climaxing. So, determined to feel fulfilled, Stream literally studies the problem with self-help books, women's magazines and the comically misinformed advice of her peers.
One evening, alone with Chad, Stream tries to bring up her lack of fulfillment with the sex. However, he says he loves her, then pushes her head down so she'll perform fellatio on him. Meanwhile, her girlfriends Jenny is having kinky sex with Louie and Nell oooly dissuades Petrus when he brings sex up.
Judy Hodsell is Stream's distracted ex-hippie mom, who's dating a white South Afrian artist. She complains about the difficulties she has with Stream's father Dick Hodsell, a yuppie she divorced two years ago, who has a new young girlfriend, Mimi.
At her second sitting of the SAT, Stream chats with garage band musician Henry Lipschitz Rockefeller before Chad pulls her away. After they dine out, Chad gives her estasy, which stimulates her more. Believing she finally has had an orgasm, Stream tells Jenny her news, but moments later she has her first from one of the jacuzzi jets.
Shortly after, all three girls end up breaking up. Stream tells Chad he has never given her an orgasm, Louie tells Jenny they lack a deeper connection, and Nell has difficulty even just kissing Petrus. The trio goes out to an expensive bar in hopes of meeting more worldly guys, and Nell gets recruited by a modeling agency.
When the trio hear back from their early admission applications, only Nell gets accepted, to Yale. Stream is disappointed, so Judy calls Mr. Jennings, her feel-good career counselor. Encouraging her to support Stream, she goes into her room and is upset to find a strip of condoms, finally signing her up to see a psychiatrist.
Both Stream and Jenny place personal ads in the paper. Stream's contact is unsuccessful at getting her to climax and Jenny's doesn't even show. At Nell's second photo shoot, the male photographer hits on her and she leaves, disgusted. Shortly thereafter, Nell calls the others as she's swallowed the rest of her Prozac prescription, but there were only three. After seeing an ad for Henry's band on TV, Stream convinces the trio to go to the gig. The song he has written is obviously about her. Nell stays behind to meet the female drummer, and confides to the others the next day she finally had an orgasm thanks to her.
Both Stream and Jenny get into Harvard and Brown, respectively. Nell, however, decides to not go to Yale after all. Stream approaches Henry, who has been accepted into both Yale and Harvard. Asking him out, he accepts with a kiss. When she later asks why he hadn't kissed her when asked at New Year's, it's because they didn't know each other. Finally both climax together, as they share feelings for each other.
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 Rodriguez 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
- Tim Cunningham as Dr. Frank
Reception
The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 38% score based on 8 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]
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