Juno is an American/Canadian comedy-drama film that revolves around a 16-year old pregnant high school girl. The film has been raking in some USD $120 million up to the time of writing and has earned many positive reviews, making many critics’ top ten lists for 2007, as well as receiving four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. And guess what? The budget for this film is only $6.5 million.
SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Juno meets the parents who’ll adopt her baby
It all started with a chair. Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is convinced she’s more than two months pregnant after taking three pregnancy tests in a convenience store. The father-to-be is her best friend and long-time admirer, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera) whom she has sex with on the “chair”.
Initially, Juno opts for an abortion, but after some thoughts as well as seeing Su-Chin (Valerie Tian) anti-abortion calling outside the clinic has made her change her mind. She later decides to have the baby for child’s adoption. With the help of her hot friend, Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno searches the Pennysaver and finds a couple she feels will be perfect for the baby. Together with her father, Mac (J. K. Simmons), Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), in their luxurious home and finalizes the adoption arrangements.
Juno is not just an ordinary 16-year-old like her other school mates from Minnesota. Her conversations has shown she’s as smart as any other adults. When the cinemas are showing movies about war, aliens attack, ruthless zombies and vampires flicks, meaningless basketball “slam dunk” movie, Juno is the only film that stays in touch with the reality and ordinary life issues as it touches sensitive issues such as teenager pregnancy and the way she copes with it. The movie even has a 93% rating from RottenTomatoes. Simply brilliant.
My ratings: 9 out of 10.
FirstShowing.net has hinted that there may be possibly a sequel for Juno.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Like this story? Click on ShareThis button above or Subscribe to my feed!
Related posts
1 comment so far ↓
i assumed Juno was directed by the same guy that directed Knocked Up because it’s about an unexpected pregnancy, and Michael Cera stars as Juno’s boyfriend (he was one of the goofy kids from Superbad, a close relative of Knocked Up), but it turns out this is not the case
Leave a Comment