Juno is a funny and savvy comedy that reminds us why we ever fell in love with movies. The Academy Award Winner was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival . The "indie" film racked in $6.5 million in only twenty days, during the first nineteen of which, the film was only available in limited release.
The film confronted the controversial issue of abortion, which has recently been the topic of other major motion pictures such as Waitress and Knocked Up .
However, in this movie the character that had to make the life changing decision was only sixteen years old.
Juno is about a teenager named Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) whose single experimentation with sex with her best male friend, Paulie (Michael Cera), results in pregnancy. After visiting an abortion clinic "to procure a hasty abortion," she thinks better of the idea and falls back on Plan B. She decides to give the baby to a family through private adoption.
With the help from her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno finds the perfect family for the adoption in the local Penny Saver, right next to the exotic pet adoptions. Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) and Mark (Jason Bateman) Loring live in one of those houses that looks like it was finished by Martha Stuart. Vanessa is consumed with desire for a child and Mark is almost a child himself.
