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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 52
Released: April 15, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
Description of Juno (Single-Disc Edition):
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) |
Beyond Juno 
Juno Soundtrack | 
More from Screenwriter Diablo Cody | 
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Stills from Juno Juno (Single-Disc Edition) Reviews:
Intriguing 
2008-07-06 - I thought Juno was an interesting film overall. Ellen Page is absolutely magnificent in the central role and Michael Cera fit well the part he plays. Personally, I was a bit skeptical of Juno's essence as a character. She struck me as being partially a male fantasy of what a girl would be like as it's improbable that a high school kid nowadays would have anywhere near the type of musical education she possesses (or walk around with an unlit pipe in her mouth). Page's Juno is highly engaging as a personality and it's hard to take your eyes off of her though. Also, I thought Jennifer Garner and Justin Bateman put in solid backup performances. Juno is entertaining and fun even if its intricacies sometimes make it a challenge to suspend disbelief.
Napoleon Dynamite it's Not!
2008-07-06 - God help us! Has the quirky, independent film finally reached it's undoing? Has it's own conventions now made it conventional? Seems like all you have to do today is: take a pretty, precocious girl; put her in flannel and Chuck Taylors; give her a guitar so she can compose her own soundtrack; surround her with your now cliched, socially awkward/emotionally retarded boyfriend; socially awkward/emotionally stable parents; socially adept/emotionally retarded yuppies; put a living room in the front yard...oh, and don't forget the quirky, organic animation to "tie" it all together. Napoleon Dynamite what hast thou wrought?
To be fair, there are some truly sparkling moments from the actors and the plot, once it gets going. But you can't help getting the impression that the director never really trusted the true quirkiness of the script, or his cast. The whole thing comes off like the final project of a How to Make Indy Films class. Whatever grit it was supposed to have has been polished to a high buff. What we get now is film craft by Butterick.
If this is what down and dirty independence has come to, what's really depressing is wondering where do we go from here?
suprisingly entertaining 
2008-07-05 - Juno is a very good, unique story and one of my favorite movies of the year. If you ask me (and in a sense you are.) the real star of this film is the script. Written by first time screenwriter Diablo Cody, Juno really is as they say "this year's little miss sunshine" It's refreshingly original, quirky and funny. It is also very heartwarming...but only towards the end. Through the majority of the film, like little miss sunshine, things pretty much get worse for the protagonists as time goes on but it is certainly not without laughs throughout. Besides, that is what makes the ending all the more powerful.
The thing that struck me the most was the honesty in the dialogue. It certainly isn't completely realistic and Juno and her friend have more witty things to say then is probably natural but nonetheless, the dialogue in the film is probably more realistic than most. The film's acting is also something of note. Ellen Page, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role, delivers a great performance. In addition, the other actors in the film, such as Michael Cera and Jason Bateman also give good performances. Like his other roles, Michael Cera who plays Juno's love interest (more or less), plays awkward better than any actor I have seen. If you've seen Superbad or any episode of Arrested Development than you know what I'm talking about.
Juno is defiantly a movie worth seeing. Juno defiantly isn't a laugh-out-loud kind of comedy but I don't think that's what they're going for. With a good cast, simple humor, and a believable script, you can't really go wrong and I don't think they did.
Great romantic comedy 
2008-07-02 - 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
2008-06-28 - 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 problem with the movie..
