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Juno
EMAILPRINTFox Searchlight Pictures

Universal acclaim
Based on 38 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama
Written by: Diablo Cody
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 5, 2007
DVD: April 15, 2008
Running Time: 92 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content and language
Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Rainn Wilson, Jason Bateman, and Jennifer Garner
Juno stars Ellen Page as the title character, a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker. With the help of her hot best friend, Leah, Juno finds her unborn child a "perfect" set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa, longing to adopt. Luckily, Juno has the total support of her parents as she faces some tough decisions, flirts with adulthood, and ultimately figures out where she belongs. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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New York Post Lou Lumenick
Hollywood's Woman of the Year is a pregnant 16-year-old, the incredibly hip, smart-mouthed and totally endearing heroine of the wise and witty Juno.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
With its original performances that can't be reduced to simplistic labels, Juno is charming, honest and terrifically acted.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand
A confluence of perfection in every aspect of the film.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
A witty little comic gem with a heart and a soul.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
At its best, Juno is about the messy things in life that are not so easily summarized.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A blithe charmer balanced somewhere between a life-should-be-so-neat fairy tale and a life's-a-real-bitch tragicomedy, leaves political debate at the ticket counter and focuses solely on what it's like for Juno MacGuff to be Juno MacGuff.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Juno respects the idiosyncrasies of its characters rather than exaggerating them or holding them up for ridicule.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
With a charismatic lead performance from Page and a plaintive score of indie-rock songs, many of them by Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches, Juno seems poised to be the season's youth-culture hit.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
Juno is a coming-of-age movie made with idiosyncratic charm and not a single false note.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Not only gives us a superb new cast of believable characters, it transcends its own genre. Only superficially a teen comedy, the movie redounds with postmodern -- but emotionally genuine -- gravitas.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
That smart, hip, human comedy you've been waiting for all year.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Like its heroine, the film's glib - and sometimes sidesplittingly funny - patter at first diverts viewers from its poignant insights. Happily, as Juno grows in experience and maturity, so does the film.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Ellen Page is key to its success, as much as Cody, or director Jason Reitman.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
There's a special kick that comes in finding a new star. So step up, Ellen Page, and take your bows.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Juno has a great heroine and is blessed by a screenplay that doesn't try to do too much and finds the perfect ending.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
It comes off as calculatedly irreverent at times, and its Wes Anderson-isms are too precious by half, but its sweetness is genuine and next-to-impossible to resist.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
A funny and sincere indie about what happens when an acerbic teen finds herself "in a fat suit I can't take off."
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Juno is not a great movie; it does not have aspirations in that direction. But it is, in its little way, a truthful, engaging and welcome entertainment.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.
Bateman is given all the best dialogue and delivers his hilarious one-liners and odd observations with his usual brilliant deadpan, along with Garner who gives the finest performance of her career.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
It's a comedy of crisp, mordant wit and quietly radiating warmth, as well as a coming-of-age story with a lovely twist -- you can't always spot the best candidates for maturity.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
As lively and entertaining as Juno is, Reitman and Cody have also done the work of shaping the story into something emotionally direct, unsparing and generous.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Cody's dialogue has a definite rhythm and Reitman directs his actors to deliver the words in the rapid-fire precision of a '30s screwball comedy. Indeed all scenes develop a rhythm and inner logic that bring the movie to often startling revelations and insights.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
An ultra-smart-mouthed comedy about a planned adoption that goes weirdly awry.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
Once it works its way through the first-timer's lookatme! snark, Juno evolves into a thing of beauty and grace. By the end, it's unexpectedly moving without ever once trolling for crocodile tears. It's a sneak attack.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Deceptively superficial at the outset, the movie deepens into something poignant and unexpected.
Read Full Review >Empire Andrew Male
A sharp-edged, sweet-centred, warm-hearted coming-of-age movie that’s always just that little bit smarter than you think it is.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
As with "Sunshine," I'd call Juno a family film if only it didn't make teen pregnancy look so sporting. Instead, we'll settle for that rare bird, an indie comedy that uplifts – funny and smart, totally trying to be cool and succeeding, and heartfelt to boot.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Comedy comes from an exaggeration of reality, not reality itself -- and on that score, Diablo Cody's first screenplay gets high marks.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
The film's forced quirkiness constantly threatens to derail the entire enterprise, making this another minor American indie exercise in family eccentricity. But it keeps being put back on track by the apparently effortless performance of a great young actress.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
It is certainly the feel-good movie of the season.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Diablo and director Jason Reitman never undercut Juno, whom Page brings to a fully rounded life (no pun intended) that verges on the frightening: Her vulnerable center doesn't belie her formidable exterior -- it just makes her more than a sitcom-patter machine.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
If a woman had not in fact certifiably written the picture, I might have thought that Lester Bangs had come back from the dead to pen an account of the teen years of his ideal mate.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Juno comes on all wisecracking and aren't-we-clever, but don't be surprised if you find yourself getting choked up -- with happy tears -- by the end.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
What sets this engaging little movie above the pack of glib, brittle or sickly-sweet teen comedies is the clear eye it casts on the suburban American family, while stoutly defending that battered institution’s elastic ability to adapt.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Jason Reitman follows his pitch-perfect satire "Thank You for Smoking" with another adventurous comedy, though here the cleverness can be grating; the movie is distinctive for its complicated emotions.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
It’s the writer, Diablo Cody, and the director, Jason Reitman, who have screws loose. Or maybe they’re just desperate to make their film a chick "Rushmore" or "Garden State."
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The movie has been hailed and marketed as this year's Little Miss Sunshine, but it has none of that movie's empathy and comic surprise. Too much of it is like a subpar episode of Freaks and Geeks, padded out to 92 minutes with pseudo-witty dialogue.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 926 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
liam b gave it a0:
This film is absolute filth. i wish i could have ripped that foetus from Juno's belly with a pair of unsanitary tongs, scraping the insides of her vagina for added effect.
H S gave it a6:
I don't think that the movie is so bad... you can sit there and just let everything go. but by no means is it the most brilliant show ever. and yes the script can get a little annoying!! however Genny T there is no need to call people who don't like it uneducated... i have a brilliant education and the movie only scored a 6 for me so.
peter file gave it a0:
This film is as unintelligent and trashy as the self-absorbed redneck charcters that feature in Juno. The music seems like it was picked by a deaf squirrel and the script written by a filthy arab goat. In fact, I would rather feed my genitals to ravenous vultures, eat my own feces and support the collingwood football club than watch this insufferable film again. Juno only appeals to dull-minded, dirty, inbred rednecks and people who take sick pleasure from watching lacklustre actors hack through a sub-par script with tacky, self-indulgent one-liners.
Dave gave it a0:
Self concious and smug. Just a few words to describe a film i'd never watch again. All the smart arse comments and clichéd references don't save what little humour this film is meant to have. Ellen Page is just too "smart" and seems to have swallowed the book of "cool things to reference". This film is for people who'd like to think they're smart, but don't see past (as someone else has said already) the indie film check list. Tries too hard in too many places, despite a slew of people trying to bump the rating, it can't change the fact that this film both sucks, and blows.
Oscar M gave it a1:
This is certainly the worst movies i have ever had to endure. The director ought to have his genitals mutilated in a manner such that he may never consider producing such a tragic failure of a film again. I'd rather fill my ears with cochroaches than the tacky redneck tunes that frequent Juno.
yo yo gave it a10:
Very intelligent. Everything they say has a secret joke. There's always something to find out. The more I find out about diablo Cody the more I think she's genius.
hobbit mother gave it a10:
"Juno (the roman god) was suppose to be really beautiful but really mean like diana Ross."- Juno I appreciate that line alot, that bitch. GO Juno. Wonder what diana thought if she watched this movie.
