Juno

"A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way."

2007 1h 36m EN

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★7.1TMDB · 7,841

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Synopsis

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Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

“A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way.”

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Cast

Elliot Page
Juno MacGuff
Michael Cera
Paulie Bleeker
Jennifer Garner
Vanessa Loring
Jason Bateman
Mark Loring
J.K. Simmons
Mac MacGuff
Allison Janney
Bren MacGuff
Olivia Thirlby
Leah
Eileen Pedde
Gerta Rauss

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jason Reitman
Writers: Diablo Cody
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $232M — a 31.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released 19 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jason Reitman, shot by Eric Steelberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Mateo Messina. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Dana E. Glauberman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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ERA

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Elliot Page and Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner carry the top of the cast.

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RUNTIME

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Marketing tagline: "A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0467406 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jason Reitman directs. Eric Steelberg behind the camera. Mateo Messina scores. Dana E. Glauberman cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Grossed $232M — a 31.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
2Released 19 years ago.
3Directed by Jason Reitman, shot by Eric Steelberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Mateo Messina. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Dana E. Glauberman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Elliot Page and Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way.".
8IMDB entry: tt0467406 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 12 themes, including "puberty", "first time", "becoming an adult", "sexuality".

The technical file

Cinematography: Eric Steelberg
Original score: Mateo Messina
Editing: Dana E. Glauberman
Production design: Steve Saklad
Costume design: Monique Prudhomme
Makeup / hair: Sherry Linder-Gygli
Sound: J. Stanley Johnston
Stunt coordinator: Scott J. Ateah
Runtime: 96 min · 1h 36m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $7,500,000
Box office: $232,372,681
Return: 3098% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Juno (2007)

Awards

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

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Kenneth Axel Carlsson2014-12-27
★ 9/10
Juno is a girl, a totally cool girl who don't take shit from anyone and do whatever she likes. She is not like disrepectful or anything, she just knows who she is and what she likes, even though she thinks that she haven't figured it out yet. She totally has. Juno gets pregnant with Bleeker. She thinks about getting an abortion, as it will be the responsible thing to do, but can't get herself to do it (I mean, the kid already has fingernails!), instead she finds a cool couple to adopt the child (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman). Juno is a movie about being a kid and growing up, about taking responsibility for your life and doing the right thing, even though it's damn hard. I mean, imagine being a pregnant teen on your school... you think people would talk about you? Well, they do... a lot. Also, imagine how your parents would react and how you would react to giving it up, whether its abortion or adoption. Anyways, Juno is cool and takes everything as it comes. She'll figure it out eventually, we know this the minute we see her. Nothing will break Juno. Ellen Page is amazing as Juno, and the rest of the cast is so carefully casted that it's not even funny. Everyone understands their part and while the dialogue is a little movie-ish all the way through, it is also terrible believeable. These people speak this way because they... know themselves and don't give a damn what anyone else thinks. Last words... if you haven't yet, go watch this movie. You don't even need to be a teenager to get it... this is a movie for everyone, boy or girl, man or woman, age 12 or 68. Don't miss out on Juno, she is worth every minute.
CinemaSerf2022-09-18
★ 7/10
This features a strong and characterful performance from Elliot Page in the title role. She is a young girl who somehow manages to convince her rather naive and drippy boyfriend "Bleeker" (Michael Cara) to have sex. When she becomes pregnant, she decides against an abortion and so offers the baby up for adoption to "Mark" (Jason Bateman) and his rather obsessive wife "Vanessa" (Jennifer Garner). The remainder of the gently entertaining film follows this young woman as she gradually deals with her pregnancy, her relationship with her parents and starts to bond with "Mark". It's this latter storyline that begins to illustrate to her not just the cracks in that marriage, but also her own feelings about herself, her unborn child and it's father. The film offers a witty and sometimes quite emotionally effective observation of how she evolves as a person and though the denouement itself is rather flat, it's still quite a fun outing for all concerned. Allison Janney and JK Simmons work well together as her parents who inject a certain amusing realism to the fact that their daughter is expecting a baby, not doing heroine! The dialogue is well written with an enjoying degree of sarcasm and plausibility to it that quite frequently raises a smile.