Mia Farrow plays a hippie mom whose permissive ideology evaporates when her 17-year-old daughter discovers sex at an elite Upper East Side private school in Colette Burson’s Coming Soon. Ostensibly a coming-of-age comedy about a cliquish trio of sexually-precocious girls, the film also paints a sobering portrait of wealthy kids encumbered by everything except adult guidance. In addition to stars Farrow and Gaby Hoffman, the film also features Spalding Gray as a professor and Peter Bogdanovich as a South American potter.

Burson, who segued from an NYU film MFA to write and direct for regional theater, is known in Hollywood for several studio-assignment scripts and a short film, Tricky. Producer Keven Duffy discovered the script for Coming Soon three years ago when she worked as an exec for the now-defunct Savoy. After stints with October Films and Lobell/Bergman, Duffy decided to produce and brought Burson’s script to indie upstart Bandeira Entertainment. Coming Soon is the first New York production for Bandeira partners Beau Flynn and Stefan Simchowitz, who have completed six features in just three years. Flynn says they made Coming Soon with coin from co-financing pioneers Key Entertainment, who previously provided cash for two other Bandeira productions, Life During Wartime and Judas Kiss.

The 35mm Soon rolled in Manhattan April 27; locations include Central Park, au courant art galleries and bars like Pravda and Spy, and a hundred-year-old upper crust private school. The film will have an indie-rock soundtrack and should be done by Labor Day; rights are available through Bandeira.

Cast: Bonnie Root, Gaby Hoffmann, Tricia Vessey, James Roday, Mia Farrow, Ryan Reynolds, Spalding Gray, Kevin Corrigan, Peter Bogdanovich; Crew: Producers, Keven Duffy, Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz; Executive Producers, Matthias Emcke, Thomas Augsberger; Screenplay, Colette Burson and Kate Robin; Director, Burson; Cinematographer, Joaquin Baca-Asay; Production Designer, Anne Stuhler; Costumes, Melissa Toth; Editor, Norman Buckley. Contact: Beau Flynn, Bandeira Entertainment, 1520 N. Ogden Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90046. Tel: (213) 866-3535, Fax: (213) 876-8879.

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