Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is a cool confident teenager who takes a nine-month detour into adulthood when she's faced with an unplanned pregnancy-and sets out to find the perfect parents for her baby. With the help of her charmingly unassuming boyfriend (Michael Cera) supportive dad (J.K Simmons) and no-nonsense stepmom (Allison Janney) Juno sets her sights on an affluent couple (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) longing to adopt their first child.System Requirements:Running Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/COMING OF AGE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543506874 Manufacturer No: 2250687
Somewhere between the sharp satire of Election and the rich human comedy of You Can Count On Me lies Juno, a sardonic but ultimately compassionate story of a pregnant teenage girl who wants to give her baby up for adoption. Social misfit Juno (Ellen Page, Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) protects herself with a caustic wit, but when she gets pregnant by her friend Paulie (Michael Cera, Superbad), Juno finds herself unwilling to terminate the pregnancy. When she chooses a couple who place a classified ad looking to adopt, Juno gets drawn further into their lives than she anticipated. But Juno is much more than its plot; the stylized dialogue (by screenwriter Diablo Cody) seems forced at first, but soon creates a richly textured world, greatly aided by superb performances by Page, Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the prospective parents, and J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and Allison Janney as Juno's father and stepmother. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) deftly keeps the movie from slipping into easy, shallow sarcasm or foundering in sentimentality. The result is smarter and funnier than you might expect from the subject matter, and warmer and more touching than you might expect from the cocky attitude. Page's performance is deceptively simple; she never asks the audience to love her, yet she effortlessly carries a movie in which she's in almost every scene. That's star power. --Bret Fetzer
Get to Know Juno's Cast
Ellen Page (Juno MacGuff)
Michael Cera (Paulie Bleeker)
Jennifer Garner (Vanessa Loring)
Jason Bateman (Mark Loring)
Allison Janney (Bren MacGuff)
J.K. Simmons (Mac MacGuff)
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Great romantic comedy:
This is a great movie if you take it for what it is - a well made, fun to watch romantic comedy with very likeable characters.
As others have cautioned, though, teenage pregnancy is no way treated fairly in this movie. Such a story could have played out so nicely only in heaven. In real life, I can only imagine the nightmare that it is being pregnant at 16.
Its good but watch with caution:
Didn't know what to expect when I went into the theatre to see this, never heard of it. It was actually really good--quirky and witty dialogue. But don't watch it with impressionable kids, I mean this movie totally makes it look like a piece of cake to have a baby and give it up. She shed a few tears in the delivery room and then life went on all happily a moment later. Come on, that's not reality. And when she tells her parents she pregnant, they're only mad for like a total of 60 seconds! That's my only... more info
Worth Getting:
I actually hadn't heard of the movie at all until it came out on video, but I really liked it and have watched it twice since. I recommend it. Ellen Page is awesome.
NOT A FAMILY FLICK:
avoid movie w/children who have not had the talk; if you are looking for a feel good ending, keep looking;
