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Coming Soon is a 1999
1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan , The Mummy , and the hig...
 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 romantic comedy
Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy is a hybrid genre in which a story about romantic love is presented in a comedic style. Works in this genre are generally considered light-hearted, and are sometimes associated with the vaguely derogatory terms "chick lit" or "chick flick", meaning "primarily aimed at a woman audience"....
 that stars Bonnie Root
Bonnie Root

Bonnie Root is an United States actor. She is probably best known for her guest role in the CBS series Cold Case, in which she plays ADA Alexandra Thomas and for her role in the soap As The World Turns where she played a serial killer....
, Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
, and Gaby Hoffmann
Gaby Hoffmann

Gabriella Mary Hoffmann is an American actor. Hoffmann?s mother, Viva , is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s....
.

e wealthy, savvy high school seniors, Stream Hodsell (Bonnie Root
Bonnie Root

Bonnie Root is an United States actor. She is probably best known for her guest role in the CBS series Cold Case, in which she plays ADA Alexandra Thomas and for her role in the soap As The World Turns where she played a serial killer....
), a smart, down-to-earth strawberry blonde, sassy Jenny Simon (Gaby Hoffmann
Gaby Hoffmann

Gabriella Mary Hoffmann is an American actor. Hoffmann?s mother, Viva , is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s....
), who masks her intelligence behind a guise of fishnet stockings, and soulful Nell Kellner (Tricia Vessey
Tricia Vessey

Tricia Vessey is an United States actress.Vessey grew up in Monterey, California. Some of her film work includes: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai , Trouble Every Day with Vincent Gallo, Town & Country , Coming Soon, On the Edge , Nobody Needs to Know, and The Brave ....
) attend the prestigious and expensive Halton School in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 and have everything - brains, beauty, money, popularity, powerful parents, and boyfriends like Chad (James Roday
James Roday

James David Rodr?guez is an United States of America actor better known by his stage name James Roday. He is currently starring in the USA Network television series Psych as fake psychic Shawn Spencer....
) and a garage band
Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 in music to 1967 in music. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name....
 musician, Henry Rockefeller Lipschitz (Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canada television and film actor noted for his role in the television sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and for the 2002 comedy film National Lampoon's Van Wilder....
).






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Coming Soon is a 1999
1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan , The Mummy , and the hig...
 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 romantic comedy
Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy is a hybrid genre in which a story about romantic love is presented in a comedic style. Works in this genre are generally considered light-hearted, and are sometimes associated with the vaguely derogatory terms "chick lit" or "chick flick", meaning "primarily aimed at a woman audience"....
 that stars Bonnie Root
Bonnie Root

Bonnie Root is an United States actor. She is probably best known for her guest role in the CBS series Cold Case, in which she plays ADA Alexandra Thomas and for her role in the soap As The World Turns where she played a serial killer....
, Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
, and Gaby Hoffmann
Gaby Hoffmann

Gabriella Mary Hoffmann is an American actor. Hoffmann?s mother, Viva , is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s....
.

Plot

Three wealthy, savvy high school seniors, Stream Hodsell (Bonnie Root
Bonnie Root

Bonnie Root is an United States actor. She is probably best known for her guest role in the CBS series Cold Case, in which she plays ADA Alexandra Thomas and for her role in the soap As The World Turns where she played a serial killer....
), a smart, down-to-earth strawberry blonde, sassy Jenny Simon (Gaby Hoffmann
Gaby Hoffmann

Gabriella Mary Hoffmann is an American actor. Hoffmann?s mother, Viva , is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s....
), who masks her intelligence behind a guise of fishnet stockings, and soulful Nell Kellner (Tricia Vessey
Tricia Vessey

Tricia Vessey is an United States actress.Vessey grew up in Monterey, California. Some of her film work includes: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai , Trouble Every Day with Vincent Gallo, Town & Country , Coming Soon, On the Edge , Nobody Needs to Know, and The Brave ....
) attend the prestigious and expensive Halton School in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 and have everything - brains, beauty, money, popularity, powerful parents, and boyfriends like Chad (James Roday
James Roday

James David Rodr?guez is an United States of America actor better known by his stage name James Roday. He is currently starring in the USA Network television series Psych as fake psychic Shawn Spencer....
) and a garage band
Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 in music to 1967 in music. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name....
 musician, Henry Rockefeller Lipschitz (Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canada television and film actor noted for his role in the television sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and for the 2002 comedy film National Lampoon's Van Wilder....
). They have it all but are still unfulfilled.

After losing her virginity
Virginity

A Virgin is, originally, a woman who has never had sexual intercourse. Virginity is the state of being a virgin. The term has traditionally also been applied to men....
 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. Even though they are on a quest for sexual fulfillment, the movie does not resort to obscenity, nudity or crudeness.

Judy Hodsell (Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
) is Stream's distracted ex-hippie
Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster , and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district....
 mom, Dick Hodsell (Ryan O'Neal
Ryan O'Neal

Ryan O'Neal is an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe Awards-nominated United States actor....
) is her yuppie
Yuppie

The term yuppie refers to an 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s....
 father with a new young girlfriend, Mimi (Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American television and film actress.She played a continuing role on the worldwide-syndicated TV series Baywatch, as Caroline Holden...
), and Mr. Jennings (Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray

Spalding Rockwell Gray was an United States actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologist. He was primarily known for his "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania." Gray achieved notoriety for writing and acting in the play Swimming to Cambodia, adapted into...
) is a feel-good career counselor.

Cast

  • Ashton Kutcher
    Ashton Kutcher

    Christopher Ashton Kutcher , best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor and former fashion model best known for playing Michael Kelso in the television series That '70s Show and his role as Jesse Montgomery in Dude, Where's My Car?....
     as Louie
  • Bonnie Root
    Bonnie Root

    Bonnie Root is an United States actor. She is probably best known for her guest role in the CBS series Cold Case, in which she plays ADA Alexandra Thomas and for her role in the soap As The World Turns where she played a serial killer....
     as Stream Hodsell
  • Bridget Barkan as Polly
  • Dmitry Lipkin
    Dmitry Lipkin

    Dmitry Lipkin is a television writer and playwright. He is the creator and Head Writer of The Riches. Lipkin is a Russian-born Jew who immigrated to Baton Rouge, LA., when he was 10 years old....
     as Young Teacher
  • Ellen Pompeo
    Ellen Pompeo

    Ellen Kathleen Pompeo is a Golden Globe Awards-nominated and Screen Actors Guild award-winning American actress, known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the American Broadcasting Company medical drama Grey's Anatomy....
     as Upset Girl
  • Gaby Hoffmann
    Gaby Hoffmann

    Gabriella Mary Hoffmann is an American actor. Hoffmann?s mother, Viva , is an actress and writer and appeared in many of Andy Warhol's movies during the 1960s....
     as Jenny Simon
  • James McCaffrey
    James McCaffrey

    For the software engineer and author, see James D. McCaffrey.James G. McCaffrey is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the television series Rescue Me , as Tommy Gavin's dead cousin, Jimmy Keefe....
     as Dante
  • James Roday
    James Roday

    James David Rodr?guez is an United States of America actor better known by his stage name James Roday. He is currently starring in the USA Network television series Psych as fake psychic Shawn Spencer....
     as Chad
  • Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow

    Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
     as Judy Hodsell
  • Peter Bogdanovich
    Peter Bogdanovich

    Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola....
     as Bartholomew
  • Ramsey Faragallah as Wahid
  • Rhasaan Orange
    Rhasaan Orange

    Rhasaan Orange is an American actor. Orange portrayed police officer Thomas Edward 'Tek' Kramer on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives. As a child, he made regular appearances on the PBS children's series Sesame Street....
     as Sincere Boy
  • Ryan O'Neal
    Ryan O'Neal

    Ryan O'Neal is an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe Awards-nominated United States actor....
     as Dick
  • Ryan Reynolds
    Ryan Reynolds

    Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canada television and film actor noted for his role in the television sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and for the 2002 comedy film National Lampoon's Van Wilder....
     as Henry Lipschitz
  • Spalding Gray
    Spalding Gray

    Spalding Rockwell Gray was an United States actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologist. He was primarily known for his "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania." Gray achieved notoriety for writing and acting in the play Swimming to Cambodia, adapted into...
     as Mr. Jennings
  • Timothy Stickney
    Timothy Stickney

    Timothy D. Stickney is an United States actor.Timothy Stickney has made many appearances in many made-for-tv films, and has worked alongside actors such as Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro....
     as Suave Man
  • Tricia Vessey
    Tricia Vessey

    Tricia Vessey is an United States actress.Vessey grew up in Monterey, California. Some of her film work includes: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai , Trouble Every Day with Vincent Gallo, Town & Country , Coming Soon, On the Edge , Nobody Needs to Know, and The Brave ....
     as Nell Kellner
  • Victor Argo
    Victor Argo

    Victor Argo was an American actor who usually played the part of the tough bad guy in the movies....
     as Mr. Neipris
  • Yasmine Bleeth
    Yasmine Bleeth

    Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American television and film actress.She played a continuing role on the worldwide-syndicated TV series Baywatch, as Caroline Holden...
     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)


Trivia

The high school which the main character attends, Halton, is obviously based on The Dalton School
The Dalton School

The Dalton School, originally called the Children's University School, is a private university-preparatory school on New York City's Upper East Side and a member of both the New York Interschool...
, an elite private school in Manhattan.

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.

For more information about the controversy, see:

  • Taubin, Amy "The Pleasure Police" Village Voice, 3 August, 1999, p. 57.
  • Schillinger, Leisel "Exile in Guyville" New York Magazine, 21 June, 1999, p. 15.


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