Metacritic Film

Coming Soon

Starring Tricia Vessey, Gaby Hoffmann, Bonnie Root, Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, and Peter Bogdanovich

MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality and dialogue involving teens, substance abuse and language

Unapix Entertainment, Inc.
Romance
101 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters May 12, 2000

When it becomes clear that one of three female college friends has never had an orgasm, they set out on sexual adventures (notice the punny title, a la "Porky's") to remedy the situation.

WRITTEN BY
Colette Burson
Kate Robin

DIRECTED BY
Colette Burson

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

46 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 The New York Times
Its frank good humor stands in sharp contrast with the strange combination of timidity and exploitiveness of more widely distributed recent teenage comedies.
60 LA Weekly
Like oversolicitous lovers, the filmmakers are hung up on foreplay -- and not enough old-fashioned teenage raunch.
50 Village Voice
Refreshingly direct and even courageous in its confrontation of female pleasure -- specifically orgasms and masturbation, the staple of teen-boy comedies, but hitherto off-limits for girls.
50 New York Post
Too crude for serious audiences and too serious to be good exploitation, Coming Soon is a teen sex comedy that's predictably getting a token theatrical release prior to its imminent debut on home video.
40 TV Guide Editor
Just because it was written and directed by a woman doesn't mean the title isn't exactly the vulgar double entendre you think.
40 Los Angeles Times
It's amazing how boring endless talk about more and better orgasms can become.
25 New York Daily News
A deadly script.

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