Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA, Canada
Runtime: 96
Rating: 5.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Jason Reitman
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Taglines:
A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way.
Writing by: Diablo Cody – (written by)
Produced by: Joseph Drake – executive producer (as Joe Drake)
Daniel Dubiecki – executive producer
Lianne Halfon – producer
Nathan Kahane – executive producer
Kelli Konop – co-producer
John Malkovich – producer
Jim Miller – co-producer
Mason Novick – producer
Russell Smith – producer
Brad Van Arragon – co-producer
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
Olivia Thirlby – Leah
Eileen Pedde – Gerta Rauss
Rainn Wilson – Rollo
Daniel Clark – Steve Rendazo
Darla Vandenbossche – Bleekers Mom
Music: Matt Messina
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
Plot: Sixteen year-old Juno MacGuff is the type of girl that beats to her own drummer, and doesnt really care what others may think of her. She learns that shes pregnant from a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend, Paulie Bleeker. Juno and Paulie like each other, but dont consider themselves to be exclusive boyfriend/girlfriend let alone be ready to be a family complete with child. Although she would rather not be pregnant, Juno is fairly pragmatic about her situation. Although there, Paulie really leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides that she will have an abortion, but thats something that she ultimately cannot go through with. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. But first she has to tell her father, Mac, and stepmother, Bren, that she is pregnant. Although they would have preferred if Juno was on hard drugs or expelled from school, Mac and Bren too are pragmatic about Junos situation. The next step is to find prospective parents for the yet unborn child. In the Pennysaver ad section, Juno finds Mark and Vanessa Loring, a yuppie couple living in the suburbs. Juno likes the Lorings, and in some respects has found who looks to be a kindred spirit in Mark, with whom she shares a love of grunge music and horror films. Vanessa is a little more uptight and is the one in the relationship seemingly most eager to have a baby. On her own choosing, Juno enters into a closed rather than open adoption contract with the Lorings – meaning she will have no contact with the baby after she gives it up. During the second and third trimesters of Junos pregnancy which she treats with care but detachment, Junos relationships with her family, with Paulie, and with the Lorings develop, the latter whose on the surface perfect life masks some hidden problems.
Crazy Credits: We know about 7 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Richard Bremmer, the vocal and facial source for the computer generated Lord Voldemort is credited as “He Who Must Not Be Named.”
Goofs: We know about 19 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Juno is talking to Leah on the phone, she says, “Its Morgan Freeman. I was wondering if you had any bones that need collecting.” Morgan Freeman wasnt in The Bone Collector (1999).
Trivia: There are 26 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- Ellen Page suggested that her character Juno would be a fan of the music by Kimya Dawson and The Moldy Peaches.
- The hamburger phone in the movie is owned by the writer, Diablo Cody.
- When searching for potential parents for her baby, Juno says shes looking for someone cool “like a graphic designer.” In real life, both “Juno” star Ellen Pages father and Diablo Codys ex-husband are graphic designers.