Juno

Theatrical Release Date: 2007 12 07 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 024543506874

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations]

Summary: When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age comedy drama from Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman. Juno (Ellen Page) may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping with classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera), the pregnant teen quickly realizes how little she really knows about life. Thankfully, Juno has been blessed with parents (J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney) who trust their daughter's judgment, and a best friend named Leah (Olivia Thirlby), who's always willing to help out in a pinch. With a little help from Leah, Juno soon comes into contact with Mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) -- an affluent suburban couple who have been unable to conceive a child of their own. Mark and Vanessa seem like they would make great parents, and are eager to adopt Juno's unborn child. Now, as adolescent Juno is faced with a series of very adult decisions, she will draw on the support of her family and friends in order to discover who she truly is, and discover that one bad choice can have a lifetime of consequences. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Film Presented – Toronto International Film Festival Best Feature – Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature – Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature – Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature – Independent Spirit Awards Best Director – Independent Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay – Independent Spirit Awards Best Female Lead – Independent Spirit Awards Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress – National Board of Review Best Original Screenplay – National Board of Review Best Breakout Performance – New York Film Critics Online Best Picture – New York Film Critics Online Best Breakthrough Performance – Washington D.C. Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Washington D.C. Film Critics Association Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actress – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Acting Ensemble – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Writer – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Young Actor – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Comedy Film – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – null Best Screenplay – null Best Director – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Actress – Chicago Film Critics Association Most Promising Performer – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Picture – American Film Institute Best Picture – Southeastern Film Critics Association Best Actress – Southeastern Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Southeastern Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Golden Satellite Award Best Original Screenplay – Golden Satellite Award Best Actress – Screen Actors Guild Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Golden Satellite Award Best Picture – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Director – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Actress – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Ensemble – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Newcomer – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Newcomer – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Actress – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Best Comedy – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Utah Film Critics Best Actress – Florida Film Critics Best Screenplay – Florida Film Critics Best Picture – Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Actress – Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Breakout Performance – Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Picture – Utah Film Critics Best Actress – Utah Film Critics Pauline Kael Breakout Award – Florida Film Critics Best Picture – African American Film Critics Best Actress – Las Vegas Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Las Vegas Film Critics Association Best Picture – Las Vegas Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – San Diego Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Writers Guild of America Best Picture – Austin Film Critics Best Actress – Austin Film Critics Best Supporting Actress – Austin Film Critics Best Original Screenplay – Austin Film Critics Best Breakthrough Artist – Austin Film Critics Best Actress – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Phoenix Film Critics Association Breakthrough on Camera – Phoenix Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Acting Ensemble – Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Picture – Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Kansas City Film Critics Association Best Picture – Ohio Film Critics Best Actress – Ohio Film Critics Breakthrough Film Artist – Ohio Film Critics Best Original Screenplay – Ohio Film Critics Best Picture – Producers Guild of America Best Original Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Directing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Presented – London Film Festival Film Presented – AFI Fest Film Presented – Rotterdam International Film Festival Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: cc
Audio commentary by director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody
Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody
Gag reel & gag take
Cast & crew jam
Screen tests

Juno

Format: DVD

Release Date: 04/15/2008

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 96 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Juno
1. Autumn/Main Titles [4:09]
2. Little Pink Plus [2:47]
3. Up the Sport [2:10]
4. Whatever [2:38]
5. Freaky [2:20]
6. Family Life [2:29]
7. Fingernails [2:49]
8. The PennySaver [3:24]
9. Anything But This [4:10]
10. The Lorings [5:29]
11. Jam Session [5:02]
12. Winter [3:54]
13. Dovetailing Interests [5:46]
14. What a Surprise [2:36]
15. Boundaries [1:59]
16. His Only Vice [2:59]
17. Nesting [1:35]
18. It's Me, Vanessa [3:17]
19. Spring [5:56]
20. A Piece of Furniture [4:51]
21. Grow Up [2:55]
22. Decision Time [3:35]
23. Fatherly Advice [3:33]
24. The Coolest [1:29]
25. We Have a Baby [1:32]
26. Still In [2:34]
27. Summer [3:06]
28. End Titles [2:55]

Cammila Collar

Bright, original, and ceaselessly entertaining, Juno is the best movie of its kind to come out in years. This is quite a feat considering that the 2000s has seen its share of funny but poignant comedy dramas with lo-fi indie soundtracks, and most of them were really good. So it's not as though Juno is satisfying and enjoyable just because it's a breath of fresh air, or because it shuffles off the text-book constraints of the traditional comedy or drama. Movies like Thumbsucker and Me and You and Everyone We Know have already set the precedent for telling hearteningly unfiltered human stories with honesty and quirkiness. No, what Juno achieves goes above and beyond these exploits. Utilizing the groundwork laid by its predecessors, it handles subject matter that's even slipperier, but it's a hundred times more accessible. Juno strikes an impossibly perfect balance between biting wit, brutal honesty, and unapologetic optimism. So how does a movie about a high-school junior who gets pregnant by her best friend and decides to give her baby up for adoption come to be this intelligent, sweet, and thoroughly watchable? Maybe it's alchemy. Many great movies reach their particular brand of excellence by way of that intangible chemistry between the actors and filmmakers that makes whatever they come up with so much greater than the sum of its parts. The only problem is that it's hard to gauge just how big of a role chemistry plays in the greatness of a film when all the participants do their jobs perfectly. Hyperbolic but true: this is the movie these people were born to make. Every actor in Juno is playing relatively within type, but none of them fall back on clich?s or rely on habit. Even Michael Cera, who's certainly played the shy kid in Superbad and on Arrested Development, tries something subtly new in Juno as Bleeker, the titular character's best friend and unlikely baby-daddy. At first glance, it might look like Cera's delivering his same old familiar brand of awkwardness, but reading between his lines even the littlest bit reveals that Bleeker's stammering comes from a totally different place. He's organic and distinct and, despite Cera's strange but ever-present charm, very real. This phenomenon comes into play again and again as each actor appears on screen, so that what you end up with for each performer isn't typecasting, but a seamlessly natural fit. It goes indubitably for Ellen Page, who stars as pregnant 16 year old and unwitting iconoclast Juno. Her frequent sarcastic banter evokes Juno's peculiar resilience, but never whitewashes the character -- or the film -- into glib superficiality. Far from it. Juno is remarkable in just how consistently funny -- belly laugh funny -- it remains from beginning to end, while somehow, at the same time, showing such tremendous heart. And not just sugary, cloying heart but real, center of the human body, life-sustaining heart. This, of course, owes largely to first time screenwriter Diablo Cody, whose script is unendingly delightful without ever betraying the seriousness of what her characters are dealing with. As a result, the finished product combines raw, real life messiness with the kind of creativity and hope that only the best movies can give us. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Cast and Crew: John Malkovich  Executive Producer 
John Malkovich  Producer 
Jason Reitman  Director 
Lianne Halfon  Producer 
Joe Drake  Executive Producer 
Nathan Kahane  Executive Producer 
Mason Novick  Producer 
Daniel Dubiecki  Executive Producer 
Russell Smith  Producer 
Diablo Cody  Screenwriter 
Matt Messina  Composer (Music Score) 
Ellen Page  Actor 
Michael Cera  Actor 
Jason Bateman  Actor 
Jennifer Garner  Actor 
Allison Janney  Actor 
J.K. Simmons  Actor 
Olivia Thirlby  Actor 
Eileen Pedde  Actor 
Daniel Clark  Actor 
Darla Vandenbossche  Actor 
Aman Johal  Actor 
Valerie Tian  Actor 
Emily Perkins  Actor 
Kaaren de Zilva  Actor 
Steven Christopher Parker  Actor 
Candice Accola  Actor 
Sierra Pitkin  Actor 
Cut Chemist  Actor 
Eve Harlow  Actor 
Kirsten Williamson  Actor 
Emily Tennant  Actor 
Ashley Whillans  Actor 
Jeff Witzke  Actor 
Colin McSween  Actor 
Peggy Logan  Actor 
Cameron Bright  Actor 
Joy Galmut  Actor 
Wendy Russell  Actor 
Robyn Ross  Actor 
Dallas Hanson  Actor 
Bryson Russell  Actor 
Derek Mann  Actor 
Keith Frost  Actor 
Grayson Grant  Actor 
Robin Watts  Actor 
Tyler Watts  Actor 
Brandon Barton  Actor 
Jeff Witzke  Actor 
Josephine Reitman  Actor 
Oliver Gorin  Actor 
Ethan Steelberg  Actor 
Matthew Sanders  Actor 

Country: Canada,USA