lucifers angel
03-28-08, 08:25 AM
We watched this a while ago, not that its for everyone, but i tought it was a really nice feal good film!!
anyone else seen it?
16-year-old Minnesota high-schooler Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) discovers she is nine weeks pregnant with a child fathered by her friend and longtime admirer, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). Although she initially opts for an abortion, a last-minute change of heart leads her to decide to have the baby and make a plan for the child's adoption. With the help of her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno searches the Pennysaver and finds a couple she feels will provide a suitable home. Along with her father, Mac (J. K. Simmons), Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), in their expensive home and finalizes the arrangements for a closed adoption.
As time passes, Juno forms a friendship with Mark, with whom she shares tastes in rock music, horror movies, and pop culture. Mark, a commercial jingle composer whose rock band youth is now confined to boxes of memorabilia and a single room of the house which his wife has allotted him, has set aside his dreams to lead a conservative life with Vanessa, who longs to be a mother. As a previous potential birth mother had "gotten cold feet," Vanessa is extremely anxious around Juno and their initial interactions are uneasy.
Months pass and Juno struggles with the emotions she feels for her baby's father, Paulie, who is clearly – although passively – in love with Juno. Juno maintains an outwardly indifferent attitude toward Paulie. However, when she learns he has asked another girl to the prom, she is hurt and angrily confronts him. Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her that she broke his heart. He also suggests that she has feelings for him she is unable to admit.
Not long before her baby is due, Juno is once again visiting with Mark when their friendship becomes flirtatious. Mark then confesses that he is leaving Vanessa. Vanessa arrives home and an argument ensues between her and Mark about whether or not it is "bad timing" for them to proceed with the adoption. As she watches their marriage fall apart, Juno leaves and cries on the side of the road before coming to a decision. Returning to the Lorings' home, she leaves a note for Vanessa.
After a heartfelt discussion with her father, Juno accepts that she loves Paulie and reveals her feelings to him. Later at his track event, when Paulie notices Juno is not in the stands and realizes she must be in labor, he rushes to the hospital to be with her after the delivery. He comforts Juno as she cries, and they both agree not to see the child, "who was never really theirs, anyway." Vanessa comes to the hospital where she alone joyfully claims the newborn boy as a now-single adoptive mother. On the wall in the baby's new nursery, Vanessa has framed Juno's note, which reads "Vanessa: If you're still in, I'm still in. -Juno." The film ends with Juno and Paulie playing guitar and singing together sometime later, followed by a kiss.
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what did everyone who ahs seen it think? I liked it!!
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/juno.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg
anyone else seen it?
16-year-old Minnesota high-schooler Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) discovers she is nine weeks pregnant with a child fathered by her friend and longtime admirer, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). Although she initially opts for an abortion, a last-minute change of heart leads her to decide to have the baby and make a plan for the child's adoption. With the help of her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno searches the Pennysaver and finds a couple she feels will provide a suitable home. Along with her father, Mac (J. K. Simmons), Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), in their expensive home and finalizes the arrangements for a closed adoption.
As time passes, Juno forms a friendship with Mark, with whom she shares tastes in rock music, horror movies, and pop culture. Mark, a commercial jingle composer whose rock band youth is now confined to boxes of memorabilia and a single room of the house which his wife has allotted him, has set aside his dreams to lead a conservative life with Vanessa, who longs to be a mother. As a previous potential birth mother had "gotten cold feet," Vanessa is extremely anxious around Juno and their initial interactions are uneasy.
Months pass and Juno struggles with the emotions she feels for her baby's father, Paulie, who is clearly – although passively – in love with Juno. Juno maintains an outwardly indifferent attitude toward Paulie. However, when she learns he has asked another girl to the prom, she is hurt and angrily confronts him. Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her that she broke his heart. He also suggests that she has feelings for him she is unable to admit.
Not long before her baby is due, Juno is once again visiting with Mark when their friendship becomes flirtatious. Mark then confesses that he is leaving Vanessa. Vanessa arrives home and an argument ensues between her and Mark about whether or not it is "bad timing" for them to proceed with the adoption. As she watches their marriage fall apart, Juno leaves and cries on the side of the road before coming to a decision. Returning to the Lorings' home, she leaves a note for Vanessa.
After a heartfelt discussion with her father, Juno accepts that she loves Paulie and reveals her feelings to him. Later at his track event, when Paulie notices Juno is not in the stands and realizes she must be in labor, he rushes to the hospital to be with her after the delivery. He comforts Juno as she cries, and they both agree not to see the child, "who was never really theirs, anyway." Vanessa comes to the hospital where she alone joyfully claims the newborn boy as a now-single adoptive mother. On the wall in the baby's new nursery, Vanessa has framed Juno's note, which reads "Vanessa: If you're still in, I'm still in. -Juno." The film ends with Juno and Paulie playing guitar and singing together sometime later, followed by a kiss.
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what did everyone who ahs seen it think? I liked it!!
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/juno.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg