Directed by: Jason Reitman
Starring: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Olivia
Thirlby, J. K. Simmons, Allison Janney, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman
Sixteen year-old Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is facing a
challenge no smart teenage girl wants to face—an unplanned pregnancy. She is pregnant with the child of her friend
Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). She
decides to try to conceal this from her parents. Though Juno initially intends to have an
abortion, she decides that it may be best to go through with the pregnancy and give
it to another family. After seeing an
ad, she meets the couple of Mark and Vanessa Long (Jason Bateman and Jennifer
Garner) and decides that the couple is suitable to take care of her child. She eventually tells her parents that she is
expecting (J. K. Simmons and Allison Janney).
As Juno goes through with the pregnancy however, the Long couple begins
to fear that she may keep the baby.
Juno is a fun flick that explores a very
uncomfortable family topic—teen pregnancy.
It gets into the inner workings of this controversial social topic in
hilarious detail. Reitman’s indie flick
is an unusually smart, well-written comedy that’s both heartwarming and blunt. With a phenomenal ensemble cast and a clever
screenplay, Juno gets a 0.03% rating.
