Juno (Single-Disc Edition) | 
| Director: Jason Reitman
Actors: Jason Bateman, Emily Perkins, Allison Janney, Jennifer Garner, J.k. Simmons
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  381 reviews
Sales Rank: 736
Format: Color, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 2250687
UPC: 024543506874
EAN: 0024543506874
ASIN: B000YABYLA
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2207 (In 1 Day)
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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Product Description
JUNO stars Ellen Page as the title character, a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Cera). With the help of her hot best friend Leah (Thirlby), Juno finds her unborn child a "perfect" set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa (Bateman and Garner), longing to adopt. Luckily, Juno has the total support of her parents (Simmons and Janney) as she faces some tough decisions, flirts with adulthood and ultimately figures out where she belongs.
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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) |
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 Ellen Page movies June 25, 2009
Cathy A. Jones (Columbus, Ohio)
This movie should be in everyone's collection. Both funny and touching. I am a big Ellen Page fan and was glad to be able to add this to my collection of movies at an amazing price from Amazon.com
Sharp and Sweet. June 24, 2009
Patricia Laverty
Sweet, perceptive, sharp and near-perfect, Juno is a memorable film that will still be great viewing decades after its release. Right from the beginning when Juno is chugging away on Sunny D, we want to see watch she will say and do next. It's disarmingly fresh, frank and funny, this story about young love, being knocked up, and the unexpected direction the unplanned pregnancy takes. Coupled with the witty script, Page's terrific performance, and a quirkily fun soundtrack, Reitman would really have to try hard to mess things up. Thankfully he doesn't, and the result is an enjoyable, highly entertaining, and even occasionally touching
Sweet. June 14, 2009
Nicole Bradshaw (Jackson, MS USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought Juno was a sweet film. The movie tells the story of Juno (played exquisitely by Ellen Page), a 16-year-old girl who gets pregnant. At first, Juno tries to arrange a "hasty abortion," but she finds that she can't go through with it. Then, deciding to give the baby up for adoption, she looks through a local Penny Saver and finds the perfect couple in search of a baby - Vanessa (Jennifer Garner in a pitch-perfect, heartbreaking turn) and Mark (Jason Bateman, dead-on as always).
Juno meets with the couple and makes all the necessary plans to have them adopt the baby. She feels secure in the knowledge that these two people will give her baby the perfect life.
But when Juno begins to notice the cracks in her dream of perfection, she begins doubting everything - love, the ability of a couple of stay together, her choice to give her baby up, and her own feelings for Bleeker (Micheal Cera), the baby's father.
I honestly think there are NO bad performances in this movie. Even the small parts are rendered with reality and depth of thought. J.K. Simmons is wonderful as Juno's dad, and ditto for Alison Janney as her stepmom. It's really an ensemble piece, with the four principles - Page, Garner, Bateman, and Cera - doing most of the heavy lifting. Page shines, delivering the types of lines you've never heard ANYONE really say with amazing credibility.
And, a note - in most movies, scenes that are the least bit tense are far overblown for "dramatic" value. Chracters cry, scream, storm off, do a bunch of stupid stuff. And I don't doubt that there are some people who handle stressful situations that way. But there are plenty of us who try to maintain some shred of self-control and attempt to make the best of the hand we are dealt. This movie is about people like that.
When Juno tells her parents she's pregnant, there's no histrionic fall-out. Sure, they are disappointed. Sure, they let her know that. She's disappointed in herself. But she's also made a decision, and she has a responsible plan to deal with the result of her irresponsibility. It's characters like this that make you want to keep going to see movies. I applaud Diablo Cody (the screenwriter) for reminding us that everyone is not a weak, sniveling idiot.
Surprisingly fresh and tender treatment of teen pregnancy June 10, 2009
R. Swanson (New Mexico)
I didn't want to write "treatment of teen pregnancy" because that makes it seem like a sociological treatise and this is definitely not that. What makes this film so good is that it is fresh, like life, and doesn't attempt to preach about anything. Yes, a teenage girl gets pregnant accidentally and the story is about what she does about it. I liked the unexpected turns the film takes. I liked the way most of the characters are portrayed as humans, with good and not-so-good qualities. The dad is maybe the most saintly but he is sufficiently scruffy to still be likeable. The step-mom is interesting because she's initially presented as someone very uncool --she loves dogs and in a manicurist--but she turns out to be incredibly strong and supportive of Juno, even as she keeps her own sharp tongue. It was the most likeable character I've seen Allison Janney portray in a while--usually she's stuck with really unpleasant, uptight types.
My only problem was with Juno. As many others have mentioned (check the reviews giving the lower scores) she is so excessively smart-mouthed that I actually gave up caring about her about halfway through the film. She is 16, going on 38, and every word out of her mouth is so clever that it really is annoying. I loved her boyfriend, Paulie, though. He is her opposite, a real dorky, awkward, sincere, not terribly cute kid. Her girlfriend is great too--not nearly as clever but with a lot of enthusiasm.
The married couple who seek to adopt Juno's baby are very well written and played by Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner. Each of them has flaws and some viewers will side with one or the other. I think the genius of the film is that they are both shown completely realistically. I felt a lot of affection for both of them. The relationship between Mark (Bateman) and Juno has struck some as inappropriate but it seemed very natural to me, and again, that's how life can happen.
I loved the ending...it was not what I expected and it seemed very true and hearwarming.
All in all, it's a very good film...I give it four and a half stars.
 disturbing portrait of an anti-social narcicisstic sociopath June 7, 2009
lucashater (Killmington, N.C.)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
yikes. talk about a film with all talk and no heart. the self-dubbed pussy-ranch blogging, internet-addicted, man-hating, ex-sex industry worker "diablo cody" has crafted a humorous though soulless hipster fantasy that could conviently also play on ABC family at a moment's notice, thanks to it's tacit dismissal of abortion as a realistic alternative to an unplanned , unwanted pregancy and ludicrously picture-perfect portrait of familial approval of such a decision and female single-parent adoption. and it raises some perplexing questions:
1) the adults (the REAL adults--the super old, unattractive ones) are all written with such disdain and pitiful moronacy you are almost amazed that they could BECOME heating and air conditioning sales people, as juno's father is, at all or teachers, as juno's best friend's creepy crush is, unfathomabley, also. the disconnect and derrision directed towatds them that juno feels is frightening. they are so divorced from one another emotionally that when (presumably director reitman) tries to enforce some awkward sentimentlaism it just seems sad, weird, and odd.
*why would juno's parents who seem so "ma and pa pork and beans" name their children "juno" and "liberty bell" in the first place? these are jennifer and mary people, come on.
2) diablo cody admits that she has "never been pregnant" and it shows. this film was OBVIOUSLY written by a woman who has never felt the swell of life inside her, or agonized over the decision of whether keeping it, giving it up for adoption, ir terminating it' s life is the right thing to do- b/c for juno, aside from an out of nowhere bedside breakdown post-delivery (that is easily recivered from with a little guitar soling) it's nothing more than a tiny nuisance and way to meet cool people and say funny things. it's disturbing how little the birth and gestation period affect her and i think it is harmful to depict a woman's pregnancy and decision to give her baby away so lightly. i was also shocked the charcters copuld even PRONOUNCE the "a" word (abortion) as if it is the most abomniable swear one could think of. this is 2009, people. not 1959. i know it's a comedy, but it still shouldn't give one eerie chills because the side stepping around the smartest, sanest, most logical choice for juno to have made feels so "wrong."
*why is this extremely painful, very private and difficult decision is used so recklesly as comedy fodder?
3) i agree. the men especially are depcited as moronic buffoons, and the women are not exactly united in sisterhood either. there is an apathy and a general disconnect from emotion period that makes this film at times diffuclt to watch, funny though it is.
*where is a decent man in this entire film? or for that matter woman? oh yeah, wait right, the angel-savior-adoptive-"personality-free"-suburban-mom jennifer garner. she's her. great. and she just wants to be a mom! so she's the good guy! go her! only betty crocker, sorority sweater, giving saints like her should be mothers, right? um, right?
4) music nerds will love this, as will any willfully "outsider associated" derelict b/c there's lots of "alternative" name dropping and undergound street cred shot for. this is pretty much ruined by the cookie cutter happy ending and the lack of realism everywhere else.
*why does such an "alternative" film have such a traditional ending?
5) i think a film like this is entertaining but dangerous at it's core, because it makes light of human life and a woman's suffering. and that is, in no way, cool --for shizz. conflicted teenage girls are not supposed to be used as baby mills for rich, barren, conformist, upgraded elite socialites. are they?
*why wasn't any of this brought up before it was nominated for an oscar? oh yeah, who cares?
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