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Well-Deserved Golden Globe Nominations
Movie Reviewer, A Big Giant Sap, a storyteller, mother of 14 year old boy
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2007
Yes, babies being born always make me tear up, but would they when they were being born to 16 year old mothers that don't want them? That was the big question. Juno (Ellen Page, so good in this you wonder where in the hell this young gal has been hiding) finds herself pregnant by Paulie Bleaker (Michael Cera), a guy on the cross country team that occasionally plays in a band with her. Basically, Juno had wanted him and gotten him, as he explained there wasn't anything on that night on TV anyway, except for the Blair Witch Project.
After taking multiple over-the-counter pregnancy tests, making herself pee often by drinking her "weight in Sunny D," and contemplating ending it all with a noose made of red licorice, Juno finally comes to terms with the fact that she is in the family way. She tries to "procure a hasty abortion," but has trouble reaching the family planning place, as she's using her pseudo-functional phone shaped like a hamburger. She reaches the clinic anyway, but just can't seem to go through with it after seeing a classmate out picketing, telling her her baby already has fingernails.
Juno tells her best friend, Leah (Olivia Thirlby), about her predicament and decides she should be canonized for not going through with the abortion and deciding to give it up for adoption, hoping to find parents for the child where the father is a graphic designer with an Asian girlfriend that rocks out on a bass guitar. Telling her father and stepmother (J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney), they are rightfully shocked, and were wishing instead for news that she was being expelled or was into drugs. After recovering from the news, her dad takes her to meet a couple looking to adopt that she saw advertised in the Penny Saver paper, the Loring's (a very controlling Jennifer Garner and caged in Jason Bateman.)
As was expected, Juno was extremely funny, and Page's Golden Globe nomination, among others, is definitely well-deserved. It's also up for a Best Screenplay award, and I honestly can't think of another film I saw this year that is better written. This was just a fantastic film from the moment you sit down in your seat, until the moment you stand up, wiping a few tears away. Yes, I laughed out loud the entire film, as did the rest of the crowded theatre, filled with adults and and teenagers, both guys and girls, and I did need that napkin in my purse for just a few minutes at the end, and not just during the birth.
As Juno wonders if it's possible for two people to ever remain in love, her father tells her, "The right person's still gonna think the sun shines out your ass."
Juno is recommended by LauraBelle
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