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List Price: $24.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 123850
Released: September 12, 2000 |
| Our Price: $5.95 |
| Used Price: $2.81 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Coming Soon:
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
Coming Soon Reviews:
A Star is Born 
2004-08-01 - The young and talented Ms. Bonnie Root gives an all star performance in this coming of age comedy. She is a real find and I look forward to watching her career progress.
Saving a Star for Lightning Striking 
2002-12-29 - Cannot say enough about this movie. Came upon it by chance one night on cable, watched it, watched it again, bought it. Now, I admit that Henry and his songs to Stream have A LOT to do with it and the fact that you are rooting for her to stop listening to her friend with the really bad wig and 'tude and decide for herself... won't be disappointed. Is a great get-your-girls-together-and-watch movie!!!!!
Do it!!! You'll thank me later, I promise.
Saving a Star for Lightning Striking
2002-12-29 - Cannot say enough about this movie. Came upon it by chance one night on cable, watched it, watched it again, bought it. Now, I admit that Henry and his songs to Stream have A LOT to do with it and the fact that you are rooting for her to stop listening to her friend with the really bad wig and 'tude and decide for herself... won't be disappointed. Is a great get-your-girls-together-and-watch movie!!!!!
Do it!!! You'll thank me later, I promise.
Surprisingly Good
2001-02-23 - 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!
CORNY 
2001-01-05 - This film, if you can actually call it that sghould have been a 10minute short. It is a 90 minute watered down stale acted piece of garbarge that never should have been released. But what can you expect from a distributor who also releases cineam classics like Da Hip Hop Witch. The director has alot to learn if she intends on trying to make it....if not she'll be leaving soon for her parents house where she will undoubtably seek refuge.
