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Re: 2007 Film List
Juno - 10 of 10
Wow, three tens for the year so far, and not even halfway through december.
The dialogue is pitch perfection amazing, the performances all around are absolutely wonderful and Ellen Page in particular is spectacular. A tremendous and wonderful film.
Juno is pregnant, and she's not happy about it. She's sixteen, a junior, and mainly just getting by duking out her quirky path through life. She plans on aborting, even goes to the clinic, but she doesn't go through with it.
Instead she finds some upper middle class suburnites to adopt her baby, and she likes both parents quite a lot, the husband is a former rocker, and the wife is uptight from being unable to fulfill her maternal instincts the way she has succussfully managed her career and professional desires.
The film is such a wonderful, compact, beautiful jewel of a movie that I don't want to say any more and feel I've already said too much. but EVERYONE should see this film, it's one for the ages. Brilliantly funny, emotionally moving and with none of the scatological vulgarity of Knocked up to sugar-coat the pill for cynics.
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