| Product Summary | | Publisher: Lions Gate | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00031398211792 | | Buy.com Sku: 204035660 | | Item#: V2GNCK | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23507 | | Category Keywords: Coming Of Age Teenage Girls | | Rating: UR |
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Features: DVD, Letterbox, English
The trials and tribulations of wealthy young Manhattanites and their sexual coming of age, a romantic comedy set at an Upper East Side prep school. Three young women come together in college and quickly determine that one has never had an orgasm, they quickly decide that they are going to make sure she has one. The three then set out on sexual adventures.
"Refreshingly direct and even courageous in its confrontation of female pleasure..." Amy Taubin, The Village Voice
"...a thoughtful comedy about girls who want to have great sex." Cheryl DeWolfe, Apollo Movie Guide
Editor's Note
A clever, refreshing take on the "teensploitation" comedy, presented from the female perspective. Stream (Root) and her elite New York City prep school friends Jenny (Hoffmann) and Nell (Vessey) seemingly have it all--brains, looks, money, popularity--but when Stream looses her virginity to the ultra-popular "butter boy" Chad (Roday), she's left feeling that she's missing something... satisfaction. Confused, unfulfilled, and armed with a stack of self-help books, women's magazines and the comically misinformed advice of her peers, Stream besets upon a quest to achieve the ecstasy so often promised, but so rarely delivered.
Plot Summary
Collette Burson's clever debut film turns the "teensploitation" genre (AMERICAN PIE, PORKY'S) on its head by presenting the quest for teenage kicks from the female perspective. Bonnie Root (IN THE WEEDS) recalls Molly Ringwald's role in SIXTEEN CANDLES as Stream Hodsell--a smart, slightly sullen senior at an elite New York City prep school who desperately wants to join the ranks of the sexually satisfied. Relying on the misguided wisdom of her friends Jenny (Gabby Hoffman, ALL I WANNA DO) and Nell (Tricia Vessey, GHOST DOG), Stream embarks upon the odyssey for the "Big O." Stream hooks up with the ultra-popular Chad (newcomer James Roday as the archetypal self-obsessed rich jerk) but her fantastic voyage ultimately leads her to the sweet and shy aspiring rebel Henry (Ryan Reynolds, DICK). In addition to a strong young cast, COMING SOON boasts supporting performances by Spalding Gray (GRAY'S ANATOMY) as a machiavellian college admissions guru, Mia Farrow (RECKLESS) as Stream's hilarious New Age mother, and Peter Bogdanovich (LAST PICTURE SHOW) as a pretentious ceramics artist. Under Burson's sensitive, witty direction, this film offers a frank, funny take on female sexuality, and subversively champions a gal's right to have fun without pandering to sexist stereotypes or cliches.
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 4/10/2007 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1999 | | Catalog ID: 21179 | | UPC: 00031398211792 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Raunchy....Sweet, silly turns from Root [and the rest of the cast]...^ | 06/23/2000 p.77The Onion A.V. Club 6 of 10
Combining the overwritten, underfunny one-liners and highbrow name-dropping of a Woody Allen knockoff with the smug pseudo-sophistication of Sex And The City, Coming Soon stars Bonnie Root as a wealthy New York high-school senior who has never had an orgasm...The starring trio is adequate but little more, with Root feigning deer-in-headlights surprise throughout while the supporting cast (including Peter Bogdanovich, Spalding Gray, and Ryan O'Neal) proves shrill and cartoonish, particularly an abrasive Mia Farrow as Root's space-cadet mother. A comedy with a thin veneer of taste and sophistication but the soul of an upscale sitcom, Coming Soon proves that female-centered teen sex comedies can be just as uninspired and forgettable as their male-themed counterparts. - Nathan Rabin
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