This Baby Is a Keeper!

Juno is a film that breaks barriers as it takes an everyday occurrence of an unplanned teenage pregnancy and turns it into pure magic on the silver screen. John Reitman directs this modern-day masterpiece as a follow up to his Thank You for Not Smoking, with a very unique sense of style, as well as a very realistic and convincing journey, that will make you feel as though you are back in high school, and will make you laugh, as well as warm your heart.

The film is about a smart mouthed, 16 year old, high school junior, Juno MacGuff, played by Ellen Page, who comes from a working class family, and is unexpectedly impregnated after having sex for the first time with her best friend Paulie Bleeker(Michael Cera) . Juno first decided that she feels it would be best to have the child aborted, but later has a battle with her conscious and feels as though the better choice would be to carry and give birth to the child and place it up for adoption. As Juno, and her best girl friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) set out to find the perfect set of parents for the baby, they come across a young, well-educated, wealthy, and beautiful couple, who are looking to adopt baby. Throughout the pregnancy Juno is faced with several changes and eye-opening experiences both physically and mentally, when she comes to realize what true love is, along with various lessons on life as she is faced with question as to whether or not true love can really last a lifetime. Juno manages get a much clearer understanding of who she really is along the way, after she experiences a face to face encounter with betrayal, flirting with disaster, and a face to face glimpse of adulthood.

Page brings Juno’s character to life through a very dry sense of humor, and sarcastic wit, which makes you want to slap her in beginning of the film, but by the end of the movie you just want to hug this young lady, who you feel like you have known forever, and tell her that “everything is going to be alright”. Cera and Page compliment each other’s acting abilities greatly while sharing the stage, not to mention the fact that Page gives what many critics agree to be the best female acting performance of year. Unlike other “oops I’m pregnant” type movies in the past, Juno reveals a much more smart, funny, and irresistible take on life, that displays a much clearer and unique form of understanding that other films like Knocked Up or Saved that reflected just the main stream idea of making a film centered around an unplanned & unbridled pregnancy.

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