''Juno'' is a 2007 American
coming-of-age
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comedy-drama
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film directed by
Jason Reitman
Jason R. Reitman (; born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian-American actor and filmmaker, best known for directing the films ''Thank You for Smoking'' (2005), ''Juno'' (2007), '' Up in the Air'' (2009), ''Young Adult'' (2011), and '' Ghostbusters: ...
and written by
Diablo Cody
Brook Maurio (''née'' Busey; born June 14, 1978), known professionally by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American writer and producer. She gained recognition for her candid blog and subsequent memoir, '' Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unl ...
.
Elliot Page
Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Elliot Page, various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination, tw ...
stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her.
Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera (; ; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, voicing the character of Brother Bear on the children's television show ''The Berenstain Bears (2003 TV series), The Berenstain ...
,
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Compan ...
,
Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director and producer known for his roles of Michael Bluth in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox/Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'' and of Mart ...
,
Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, she is known for her performances across multiple genres of screen and stage. Janney has received various accolades, including an Academ ...
and
J. K. Simmons
Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor, considered one of the most prolific and well-established character actors of his generation. He has appeared in over 200 films and television roles since his debut in 1986. He ...
also star. Filming spanned from early February to March 2007 in
Vancouver
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, British Columbia. It premiered on September 8 at the 2007
Toronto International Film Festival
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, receiving a
standing ovation
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.
''Juno'' won the
Oscar
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for
Best Original Screenplay
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and earned three other Oscar nominations, including
Best Picture
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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and
Best Actress
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for 20-year old Page (the
fifth-youngest nominee in the category). The film's soundtrack, featuring several songs performed by
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song " Anyone E ...
in various guises, was the first chart-topping soundtrack since ''
Dreamgirls
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'' and
Fox Searchlight
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's first number-one soundtrack. ''Juno'' earned back its initial budget of $6.5 million in twenty days, the first nineteen of which were when the film was in
limited release
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. It went on to earn $231 million worldwide. ''Juno'' received acclaim from critics, many of whom placed the film on their top-ten lists for the year. It has received criticism and praise from members of both the
anti-abortion
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and
abortion rights
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communities regarding its treatment of abortion.
Plot
In
Elk River, Minnesota
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, sixteen year old high-schooler Juno MacGuff discovers she is pregnant by her friend and longtime admirer Paulie Bleeker. She initially considers an abortion. Going to a local clinic run by a women's group, she encounters a schoolmate outside who is holding a one-person
anti-abortion
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vigil. Once inside, Juno decides to give the baby up for adoption instead. With the help of her friend Leah, Juno searches the ads in the ''
Pennysaver
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'' and finds a childless married couple she feels will provide a suitable home. She tells her father Mac and stepmother Bren, who offer their support. With Mac, Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring, in their expensive
Saint Cloud home, and agrees to a
closed adoption
Closed adoption (also called "confidential" adoption and sometimes "secret" adoption) is a process by which an infant is adopted by another family, and the record of the biological parent(s) is kept sealed. Often, the biological father is not re ...
.
Juno visits Mark a few times, and finds they share tastes in
punk rock and horror films. Mark, who has set aside his rock band youth (now confined to memorabilia displayed in the one room of the house that Vanessa has designated for Mark's personal belongings), works at home composing commercial jingles. Juno and Leah happen to see Vanessa in a shopping mall being completely at ease with a child, and Juno encourages Vanessa to talk to the baby in Juno's womb, which kicks for Vanessa.
As the pregnancy progresses, Juno struggles with the emotions she feels for the baby's father Paulie. Juno maintains an outwardly indifferent attitude toward Paulie, but when she learns Paulie has asked another girl to the upcoming prom, she confronts him in a jealous rage. Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her she broke his heart.
Not long before her baby is due, Juno is again visiting Mark when their interaction becomes emotional. Mark then tells her he will be leaving Vanessa to figure his life out. Juno is horrified by this revelation, with Mark asking Juno, "How do you think of me?", revealing he is starting to develop feelings for her. Vanessa arrives home, and Mark tells Vanessa he does not feel ready to be a father. Juno drives away and breaks down in tears by the side of the road. Returning to the Lorings' house, Juno leaves a note and disappears as the Lorings answer the door.
After a heartfelt discussion with her father, Juno accepts that she loves Paulie. Juno then tells Paulie she loves him, and Paulie's actions make it clear her feelings are very much reciprocated. Not long after, Juno goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital, where she gives birth to a baby boy. She had deliberately not told Paulie because of his track meet. Seeing her missing from the stands, Paulie rushes to the hospital, finds Juno has given birth to their son, and comforts Juno as she cries.
Vanessa comes to the hospital, where she joyfully claims the newborn boy as a 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 in the summertime with Juno and Paulie playing guitar and singing together, in a happy relationship.
Cast
*
Elliot Page
Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Elliot Page, various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination, tw ...
as Juno MacGuff, the birth mother, Paulie's girlfriend
*
Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera (; ; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, voicing the character of Brother Bear on the children's television show ''The Berenstain Bears (2003 TV series), The Berenstain ...
as Paulie Bleeker, the father of Juno's child, and Juno's boyfriend
*
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Compan ...
as Vanessa Loring, Mark's wife and the prospective adoptive mother of Juno's child
*
Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director and producer known for his roles of Michael Bluth in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox/Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'' and of Mart ...
as Mark Loring, Vanessa's husband and the prospective adoptive father of Juno's child
*
Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, she is known for her performances across multiple genres of screen and stage. Janney has received various accolades, including an Academ ...
as Bren MacGuff, Juno's stepmother
*
J. K. Simmons
Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor, considered one of the most prolific and well-established character actors of his generation. He has appeared in over 200 films and television roles since his debut in 1986. He ...
as Mac MacGuff, Juno's father
*
Olivia Thirlby
Olivia Jo Thirlby (born October 6, 1986) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Leah in the comedy-drama film ''Juno'' (2007),Louie, Rebecca (June 28, 2008).Olivia Thirlby is smoking in 'The Wackness'". '' Daily News, location ...
as Leah, Juno's friend
*
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom ''The Office'', for which he earned three consecutive Emm ...
as Rollo, convenience store clerk
* Valerie Tian as Su-Chin, anti-abortion protester
*
Emily Perkins
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as punk abortion clinic receptionist
Themes
Along with ''
Knocked Up
''Knocked Up'' is a 2007 American romantic comedy film written, co-produced and directed by Judd Apatow, and starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, and Leslie Mann. It follows the repercussions of a drunken one-night stand between a sl ...
'' and ''
Waitress
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'', two other 2007 films about women facing unplanned pregnancies, ''Juno'' was interpreted by some critics as having an
anti-abortion
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theme. Ann Hulbert of ''
Slate
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'' magazine believed that ''Juno'' "
ndercutboth pro-life and pro-choice purism." Jeff Dawson of ''
The Sunday Times
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'' believed that the film was inevitably placed in the "unwanted pregnancy subgenre" with ''Knocked Up'' and ''Waitress'' due to its subject matter but thought that its interpretation as an anti-abortion film only "muddied the waters".
[ ]Hadley Freeman
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Freeman was born in New York City to a Jewish family. ...
of ''The Guardian
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'' criticized ''Juno'' for "complet nga hat-trick of American comedies in the past 12 months that present abortion as unreasonable, or even unthinkable—a telling social sign", though she noted, "I don't believe any of these films is consciously designed to be anti-abortion propaganda." A. O. Scott, writing for ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', agreed that ''Juno'' has "an underlying theme, a message that is not anti-abortion but rather pro-adulthood." Page commented, "What I get most frustrated at is when people call it a pro-life movie, which is just absurd ... The most important thing is the choice is there, and the film completely demonstrates that." Cody and Page have openly stated that they are in favor of abortion rights
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;[ Reitman thought that it was "fantastic" that anti-abortion and abortion rights groups were embracing the film.] He said that "''Juno'' seems to be a mirror, and people n both sides
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...
see themselves in it."
Other critics labeled ''Juno'' as feminist
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because of its portrayal of Juno as a confident and intelligent teenage girl. Wesley Morris
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of ''The Boston Globe'' concluded "''Juno'' serves cool, intelligent girls something they rarely see in a movie: themselves." Cody said about writing the film, "Women are clever, women are funny, women are sharp, and I wanted to show that these girls were human and not the stereotypical teenage girls that we often see in the media" and "There was a lack of authentic teen girl characters ... I saw writing this screenplay as an opportunity to create an iconic female." Page praised the film for its positive depiction of teenage girls, describing Juno's character as "really refreshing and allow ngfor new possibilities in what young women can be"[ and "honest but original, completely devoid of stereotype",][ while also highlighting that "Girls haven't had that sort of character before. We don't have our '']Catcher in the Rye
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''."[ Page criticized the media perception of the Juno character as a "strong woman", arguing that if Juno were a male character, the "strength" of the character would not be considered remarkable.] Reitman was interested in the personal/political conflict for Vanessa's character: "Feminism has paved the way for Vanessa's career, but ultimately Vanessa wants to be a full time mother."
Production
Development
Diablo Cody
Brook Maurio (''née'' Busey; born June 14, 1978), known professionally by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American writer and producer. She gained recognition for her candid blog and subsequent memoir, '' Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unl ...
was first approached to write a screenplay by film producer Mason Novick
Mason Novick (born December 20, 1974) is an American film producer and talent manager based in Los Angeles.
Background
Career
His credits include '' Red Eye'' (2005), '' Juno'' (2007), ''(500) Days of Summer'' (2009) and ''Jennifer's Body'' ( ...
, who had previously landed her a book deal for her memoir, '' Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper'', after discovering her blog about stripping. He persuaded her to adapt the book for the screen, but suggested that she first write a screenwriting sample to show studios; that sample became ''Juno''.[ After deciding on an adoption storyline, Cody collected the stories of adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents, including that of her then-husband, an adoptee who reunited with his birth parents after she wrote the film. She also found inspiration in the story of a close friend who had become pregnant in high school and used some details from her friend's experience in the film, such as mistreatment from an ultrasound technician.] Much of ''Juno'', however, was based on Cody's own high school experiences: She dated a tic-tac
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-loving boy similar to Paulie, she was best friends with a cheerleader like Leah, and she used a hamburger phone identical to the one that appears in the film.[ After writing the screenplay over seven weeks in the ]Starbucks
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As of November 2021, the company had 33,833 stores in 80 c ...
section of a Target
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** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports
** Aiming point, in field artillery, fi ...
store in Crystal, Minnesota
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, Cody compared writing to breathing, seeing Juno as an extension of herself.
Novick sent Cody's screenplay to his friend Jason Reitman
Jason R. Reitman (; born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian-American actor and filmmaker, best known for directing the films ''Thank You for Smoking'' (2005), ''Juno'' (2007), '' Up in the Air'' (2009), ''Young Adult'' (2011), and '' Ghostbusters: ...
; by the time Reitman had read halfway through the script, he felt that if he did not direct the film, he would regret it for the rest of his life.[ Initially, Reitman found it difficult to acquire the script, because his first film, '']Thank You for Smoking
''Thank You for Smoking'' is a 2005 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart, based on the 1994 satirical novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley. It follows the efforts of Big ...
'', had not been released yet, so he did not have any feature film credits. Other directors, including Jon Poll
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Career
Poll is the one of three sons of the late film producer, Martin Poll. He graduated fr ...
, were considered, but Reitman was chosen and he interrupted work on his own spec script
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in order to direct ''Juno''. Cody says she had a cynical attitude when writing ''Juno'' ("I didn't ever think this film would be produced")[ and, indeed, the film was delayed by financial problems. After its controversial nature scared off a number of major studios, ]John Malkovich
John Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Aw ...
's production company, Mr. Mudd, took on the project.[ It was later brought to production company ]Mandate Pictures
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by co-producer Jim Miller.
The funding originated from the United States.
Casting
Having admired his performance in ''Hard Candy
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'', Reitman cast Page in the lead role, saying that when he read the screenplay for the first time he pictured Page as Juno. Reitman visited Page on the set of a film on which he was working to offer him the role. He also handed the script to J.K. Simmons, who had featured in his previous film, ''Thank You for Smoking
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'', not telling him that he intended Simmons to play Mac. Simmons says that, after reading the script, he would have been happy to play even the high school teacher who has no speaking lines. Other cast members Reitman had "in mind right from the start" were Olivia Thirlby—who had originally unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Juno—and Michael Cera. He took them with Page and Simmons to a Panavision
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stage in California and shot 45 pages of the script on 35mm film 35 mm may refer to:
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against a black backdrop. He presented this footage to Fox Searchlight as the initial cast. Reitman highlighted the importance of doing a screen test instead of individual auditions, saying: "This is a movie that's all about relationships and the idea of auditioning people outside of each other, one-on-one with the casting director, didn't make sense."
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Compan ...
, who accepted a lower salary than usual to prevent the film from exceeding its budget, was confirmed by Reitman to have signed onto the project in January 2007. After working with Jason Bateman on '' The Kingdom'', Garner recommended him to Reitman when they first met; Bateman was cast as Mark,[ the last cast member to be signed. Lucas McFadden, better known as ]Cut Chemist
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Early life
Cut Chemist grad ...
, a DJ and record producer, makes a cameo appearance as Juno and Paulie's chemistry teacher. McFadden was doing scoring work for Reitman when he received the ''Juno'' screenplay and asked McFadden to appear in the film; Reitman thought that it was "perfect irony" for the chemistry teacher to be played by Cut Chemist.
Michael Cera stated that the film had "a lot of Canadian influence" due to the fact that he and Page were Canadian and that a lot of the other actors originated from Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
.[ Cera's comment was a response to a statement from Peter Howell of the '']Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...
'': "I thought Juno was a very Canadian movie, even though it was set in the U.S."[
]
Filming
Shooting on a budget of US$6.5 million,[ ''Juno'' was filmed in and around Vancouver, ]British Columbia
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, standing in for Minnesota
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, where production was originally intended to take place. Although films commonly use a Canada-as-America location shift for budgetary reasons, Reitman insists the choice of filming location was instead at his request.[ Filming locations included a house in nearby White Rock as Mark and Vanessa's home, ]Eric Hamber Secondary School
Eric Hamber Secondary School is a public secondary school located in the South Cambie neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Eric Hamber is a comprehensive secondary school with approximately 1400 students. Each year, approximatel ...
as Dancing Elk High School, and South Surrey
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's Athletic Park track as Dancing Elk High School's athletics track.
After minimal rehearsal, filming took place in February and March 2007 on a six-week schedule,[ of which 30 days were designated to filming.][ The crew was planning to import snow for the film's winter events,][ but it snowed on location, and they were able to reschedule filming to shoot the winter scenes during snowfall, which second assistant director Josy Capkun says resulted in much wider snow shots than originally planned.][ Although the film was shot out of sequence,][ the final scene was scheduled for the final day and, after a long period of rain, the crew was intending to shut down production and resume months later to shoot the scene, set in summer, but the rain stopped and they were able to shoot the scene in the sun.][ That final scene depicted Juno and Paulie singing ]The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches were an American indie group founded by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson. Leading proponents of the anti-folk scene, the band has been on hiatus since 2004. The appearance of their song " Anyone Else but You" in the film ''Juno'' s ...
' " Anyone Else but You", and band member Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song " Anyone E ...
visited the set to speak to Page and Cera while they were practicing the song.[
]
Music
The movie features several songs performed by Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song " Anyone E ...
as well as her bands Antsy Pants
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song " Anyone ...
and The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches were an American indie group founded by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson. Leading proponents of the anti-folk scene, the band has been on hiatus since 2004. The appearance of their song " Anyone Else but You" in the film ''Juno'' s ...
. According to director Jason Reitman, Page suggested The Moldy Peaches’ work as fitting for Juno's character. Reitman recounts:
ewent on my computer, played the songs, and I fell in love with it. Diablo and I discussed putting a Moldy Peaches song in it where the characters would sing to each other. I got in touch with Kimya Dawson of The Moldy Peaches and she started sending me her work, which was beautiful, and that became a lot of the soundtrack.
Reitman contacted Dawson, and, after reading the film's screenplay, she agreed for her songs to be used in the film, sending him a packet of CDs containing about 120 songs. The songs were almost entirely self-published by Dawson,[ who says she wrote nothing specifically for ''Juno'' and that all the songs had been performed and recorded before she was contacted to work on the film. Reitman asked her to additionally re-record instrumentals, which included humming over the lyrics of some of her songs.] He also contacted composer Mateo Messina
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Messina has scored o ...
, with whom he had previously worked on ''Thank You for Smoking
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'', to compose the film's incidental score.[ He gave Messina a collection of Dawson's songs and asked him to create "the sound of the film" through an instrumental score that replicated the recording quality, tone, feel and innocence of her music.][ Messina decided to implement an "acoustic guitar feel that was jangled and was really loose, like Juno."] Experimenting with different guitars, he ended up using "Stella," a second-hand guitar belonging to guitarist Billy Katz that he described as "kind of tinny, not perfectly in tune, but thas all kinds of character." Katz was hired to perform acoustic and classical guitar for the movie's score, using "Stella" extensively throughout.[
Page also suggested ]Cat Power
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's cover of the song "Sea of Love Sea of Love may refer to
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", which Reitman was hesitant to include as it had already been featured in the 1989 film ''Sea of Love Sea of Love may refer to
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* "Sea of Love" (Phil Phillips song), a 1959 song by Phil Phillips and The Twilights, covered by many performers
* "Sea of Love" (The National song), 2013
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''; however, he decided that its inclusion would mark a "new take" on the film's cinematic references.[ Initially, Reitman had conceived of Juno being a fan of ]glam rock
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, but rejected it as too inauthentic, and he said he wanted to construct Juno to be "into music very real and authentic", making her a fan of punk rock, including The Runaways
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, Patti Smith
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is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album '' Horses''.
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and Iggy Pop and the Stooges
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. He felt that the Sonic Youth cover of "Superstar
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" defined Juno and Mark's relationship—Juno preferring the classic 1971 version by The Carpenters
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while Mark preferred Sonic Youth's 1994 cover.[ "]A Well Respected Man
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" by The Kinks
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was a song Reitman had associated with a character from another of his screenplays and says it was "heart-breaking" when he decided to include the song as an introduction for Paulie instead, despite feeling it suited the scene perfectly.[ He found ]children's
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songwriter Barry Louis Polisar's "All I Want Is You" after "surfing iTunes
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for hours on end" using different words and names as search terms and thought that the handmade quality was perfect for the opening titles, which were afterwards made to correspond to the song.[ The "Brunch Bowlz" jingle, Mark writes in the film, was composed by advertisement writer Chris Corley, with whom Reitman had previously worked on a set of commercials for ]Wal-Mart
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.
Design
The film was set out in a sequence of the year's seasons, which, Reitman said, "really resonated with me when I read it, because they mirror the three trimesters of Juno's pregnancy." Because filming took place over only 30 days, fake flora was used to give the impression of different seasons while other flora was edited in post-production. Brown leaves were composited onto a fake tree outside Juno's house and cherry blossom trees outside Leah's house were touched up in a lighter shade of pink to depict autumn; a fan was used to blow leaves around in some scenes as if the leaves were falling from trees. Fake flowers were used in front of Paulie's house at the end of the film to give the impression of summer.[ Reitman used different colors to inform character, such as the burgundy and gold Dancing Elk High School track uniforms and an early scene with Juno in a red hooded jacket "walking through a world of somber greens and browns."
Cody was impressed with the production design team's creation of the set from only a few sentences in her script, calling Juno's bedroom "a very emotional set for ebecause it reminded me so much of my own little habitat when I was a teenager."] The walls of Juno's room are covered with posters of bands, while Leah's room includes a mural of older men she finds attractive and Paulie's room is overly childlike to indicate his innocence.[ ]Production designer
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Steve Saklad designed Mark and Vanessa's house with the assumption that "Vanessa has probably read every home magazine and tried to copy what's in them as best she could." Costume design
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er Monique Prudhomme was nominated for a Costume Designers Guild
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Award in the " Excellence in Contemporary Costume Design for Film" category. She dressed Vanessa in clothes that were "simple and very tasteful" but with an "anal-retentive quality" and Mark in conservative clothing to complement Vanessa's taste. It was Page's suggestion that Juno wear flannel shirts and sweater-vests.[ Page also had to wear two sizes of prosthetic belly fitted like a ]corset
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in the back, a third "real" belly that is seen when Juno has an ultrasound
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, and a variety of sizes of fake breasts. The footage displayed on Juno's ultrasound monitor is of supervising sound designer Scott Sanders's son Matthew and was embedded into the scene in post-production.
Opening title sequence
''Juno'''s opening title sequence, depicting a rotoscoped
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Juno walking through her town while drinking a bottle of SunnyD
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orange drink, was put together over 7–8 months[ by a small design studio, Shadowplay Studio, based in Los Angeles.] Reitman had met the studio's co-founder Gareth Smith in Japan on the short film festival circuit where they each had shorts screening.[ Shadowplay created the opening title sequence for Reitman's previous film, ''Thank You for Smoking'', and he contacted them again when he found out he was going to direct ''Juno''.] With vintage 1970s punk-rock posters as inspiration, Smith and artist Jenny Lee decided to create a sequence that "had texture and a little bit of edge, but also imparted the warmth and heart of the screenplay". In the last days of filming in Vancouver,[ Page was photographed with a ]high speed camera
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from a number of angles walking on a treadmill and drinking SunnyD.[ 900 still images of a walking and drinking Page were printed out and repeatedly run through a Xerox machine to degrade their quality until the pictures appeared hand-drawn.][ The pictures were cut out and scanned back onto the computer, then layered onto the background drawn by Lee with ]compositing
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software[ to create a ]stop motion
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animation sequence that corresponded to "All I Want Is You" by Barry Louis Polisar, the song Reitman had chosen.[ Shadowplay also designed the titlecards for each of the seasons for the film,][ hand-made a custom ]typeface
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for the opening title sequence and the closing credits
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, and collaborated on the design of the soundtrack and the DVD.[
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Distribution
Theatrical release
With a well-received preview first screened on September 1, 2007, at the Telluride Film Festival
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, ''Juno'' premiered on September 8 at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
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and received a standing ovation, which prompted film critic Roger Ebert
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to say "I don't know when I've heard a standing ovation so long, loud and warm." It went on to feature at the Austin Film Festival
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, Rome Film Festival
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, London Film Festival
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, Bahamas International Film Festival
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, St. Louis International Film Festival
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, Stockholm International Film Festival
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, International Thessaloniki Film Festival
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, Gijón International Film Festival
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, Palm Springs International Film Festival
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and the International Film Festival Rotterdam
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, earning awards and nominations at several.
Although ''Juno'' was originally intended to open in theaters on December 15, 2007, the opening date was moved forward to take advantage of the positive reviews preceding its release, and opened in limited release
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on December 5, playing in only seven theaters in Los Angeles and New York City. The film opened in an additional thirteen cities and around 25 theaters on December 14, expanding further on December 21 before entering wide release In the American motion picture industry, a wide release (short for nationwide release) is a film playing at the same time at cinemas in most markets across the country. This is in contrast to the formerly common practice of a roadshow theatrical re ...
on December 25.[
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Promotion
Anthony Breznican of ''USA Today
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'' said in a 2008 article that ''Juno'' is one of three films that were "orchestrated to start off as word-of-mouth
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favorites among devoted moviegoers." Following ''Juno'''s release, Fox Searchlight sent hamburger phones styled similarly to that used by Juno in the film to journalists and critics to entice them to review the film. Though the phones were originally distributed in small numbers to viewers at promotional events, companies not affiliated with Fox Searchlight began to produce and sell the phones on eBay
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and other online store
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s. In the month after the film's release, sales of the phone on eBay increased by 759 percent[ and it was named one of the "10 Cool Gifts for Film Buffs" by '']Entertainment Weekly
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''.
Home media
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray
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disc on April 15, 2008, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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. It is available in a single disc DVD edition, which includes the movie along with an audio commentary by director Reitman and writer Cody, eleven deleted scenes, a gag reel, a 'gag take' (including a profanity laden blow-up by Rainn Wilson
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), a "Cast & Crew Jam", and screen tests. The two-disc DVD edition includes the same extra content and four additional featurettes ("Way Beyond 'Our' Maturity Level: Juno – Leah – Bleeker", "Diablo Cody Is Totally Boss", "Jason Reitman For Shizz", and "Honest To Blog! Creating Juno"), while the second disc is a DRM-encrypted version of the film for portable players. The Blu-ray version includes all the two-disc DVD edition extras and two additional featurettes: "Fox Movie Channel
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Presents: Juno World Premiere" and "Fox Movie Channel Presents: Casting Session".
Reception
Box office performance
In limited release and playing in only seven theaters in Los Angeles and New York City, ''Juno'' grossed $420,113 over its debut weekend, averaging $60,016 per screen.[ When ''Juno'' became Fox Searchlight's first film to surpass $100 million at the box office, the company's president Peter Rice issued the statement: "This is an astonishing feat for us and the film has surpassed all our expectations. We knew this film had crossover potential and it has resonated with audiences all across the country." The film has grossed $143,495,265 in the United States and $87,916,319 in other territories for a total worldwide gross of $231,411,584.] It was also the highest-grossing of the five Best Picture
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nominees for the 80th Academy Awards
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.
Critical reaction
''Juno'' received highly positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film has a 94% approval rating from critics based on 217 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The site's consensus states, "One of the brightest, funniest comedies of the year, ''Juno''s smart script and direction are matched by assured performances in a coming of age story with a 21st century twist." making it the best reviewed comedy film on the website in 2007. On Metacritic
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, the film had an average score of 81 out of 100, based on 38 reviews. Roger Ebert
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of the ''Chicago Sun-Times
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'' gave the film four stars and called it "just about the best movie of the year. ... Has there been a better performance this year than lliotPage's creation of ''Juno''? I don't think so." Ebert placed ''Juno'' at number one on his annual "best of" list. The film also ranks at number 463 in ''Empire
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'' magazine's 2008 list of ''The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time''. Juno MacGuff also ranked number 56 on ''Empire's'' list of ''The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time''. ''Paste Magazine
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'' named it one of the 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000–2009), ranking it at number 15. In June 2010, ''Entertainment Weekly
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'' named Juno one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years.
However, not all critics share the positive view towards ''Juno''. David Edelstein
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of ''New York
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'' magazine felt that the film was desperate to be "a movie that confers hipness on teens, that makes kids want to use the same slang and snap up the soundtrack". Music reviewer Jim DeRogatis
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criticized the film's stylized dialogue and what he saw as a casual take on abortion and Juno's naïveté in becoming pregnant, claiming: "As an unapologetically old-school feminist, the father of a soon-to-be-teenage daughter, a reporter who regularly talks to actual teens as part of his beat and a plain old moviegoer, I hated, hated, hated this movie."
"The ''Juno'' Effect"
In 2008, after 17 students under sixteen years of age at a Gloucester, Massachusetts
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, high school became pregnant, ''Time
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'' magazine called it the "Juno Effect". ''Time'' stated that some adults dismissed the statistic as an outlier
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while others accused films such as ''Juno'' and ''Knocked Up
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'' for glamorizing teenage pregnancy
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. Kristelle Miller, an Adolescent Psychology Professor at University of Minnesota-Duluth
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stated that " e ''Juno'' effect' is how media glamorizes pregnancy and how ..nbsp;pregnancy is also redemptive of any past problems".
After Senator John McCain
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named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
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as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket, it was revealed in September 2008 that Gov. Palin's daughter, Bristol
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, age 17, was pregnant with the child of another teenager. News reports and editorials termed Bristol Palin's pregnancy as the latest episode in the debate over teen pregnancy of which ''Juno'' was a part, while conservative commentators made comparisons between Bristol Palin's pregnancy and the film. Noted ''New Republic'' literary editor Leon Wieseltier
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, "The Republicans wanted a new conversation, and they got one. ''Juno'' in Juneau
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!" Fox News
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' Roger Friedman
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wondered, "''Juno'' at once violated and vindicated conservative values. The question is, will the public rally 'round Bristol Palin
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the way it did Juno? Or will it reject her for getting in this situation in the first place?"
''Juno'' actor Jason Bateman
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defended the film. "Unfortunately," he said, "we've had these instances where guys kill people because of what they hear in rock 'n roll lyrics or some garbage like that. Look, if you're going to blame a movie or song for your actions, whether they be good or bad, I think you're looking at the wrong things to influence your life. I think people should look to other areas of their life for lessons and guidance, mainly parents, or teachers, or friends, or whomever. That should probably be where you should point your eyes and ears."
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wrote in 2010 that, according to figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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, pregnancy rates for all teenagers dropped 2 percent between 2007 and 2008, meaning that "the slight uptick in teen pregnancy rates between 2005 and 2006 were probably just an anomaly and not some heinous trend brought about by pop culture", and that if there had been such a thing as a "Juno effect", it would have caused pregnancies to go down, not up. She criticized proponents of the theory, stating that they believed that teenagers "somehow lose all ability to evaluate any nuance or context in that woman's particular situation, and instead make some sort of primitive cause-and-effect connection" and that "by talking about pregnant girls, and most of all, by daring to portray some of them as ordinary, even likable, we'd get way more babies having babies." She concluded that "depicting teen parents may not ''glamorize'' them, so much as ''humanize'' them. You know, that thing that happens when one person recognizes that someone else is a person too? So, now that we can firmly state that realistically depicting the lives of the tiny percentage of girls who do become pregnant won't necessarily contaminate the rest of them, it's time to stop worrying and ask what we can do to help."
In light of Georgia's anti-abortion law, Diablo Cody said she would not have written ''Juno'' now that people perceive it as an "anti-choice" film.
Top ten lists
The film appeared on critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007:
*1st – Roger Ebert
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, ''Chicago Sun-Times
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''
*1st – '' Paste'' magazine staff
*2nd – USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting (tied with ''Bella
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'')
*3rd – David Germain, Associated Press
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*3rd – Moviefone
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staff
*4th – James Berardinelli
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, ReelViews
*4th – Lou Lumenick, ''New York Post
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''
*4th – Richard Roeper
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, ''Chicago Sun-Times
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''
*6th – Claudia Puig, ''USA Today
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''
*6th – Desson Thomson
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...
, ''The Washington Post
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''
*6th – Joe Morgenstern
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, ''The Wall Street Journal
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''
*6th – Liam Lacey and Rick Groen, ''The Globe and Mail
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''
*6th – Marc Savlov, ''The Austin Chronicle
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''
*7th – Corina Chocano, ''Los Angeles Times
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''
*7th – Carrie Rickey, ''The Philadelphia Inquirer
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''
*10th – A. O. Scott, ''The New York Times
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'' (tied with ''Knocked Up
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'' and ''Superbad
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'')
*10th – Peter Travers
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, ''Rolling Stone
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'' (tied with ''Knocked Up
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'')
*10th – Stephen Holden
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, ''The New York Times
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''
Accolades
Reitman expressed disappointment that ''Juno'' was ruled ineligible for the Genie Award
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nominations:
Sara Morton, the head of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
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, issued a statement explaining that the film had never been submitted for Genie Award consideration by its studio. ''The Hollywood Reporter
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'' explained that Genie rules define Canadian films as financed at least in part by Canadian sources, and because American companies Mandate Pictures and Fox Searchlight were the sole funders, ''Juno'' was ineligible. Nonetheless, Genie spokesman Chris McDowall said that while the film was not evaluated for eligibility since it was not submitted, "Financing is one of the criteria, but it's not everything." Despite this, the film was eligible for the 2008 Canadian Comedy Awards
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The ...
, receiving two wins from three nominations.
Soundtrack
''Juno'''s soundtrack
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, '' Music from the Motion Picture Juno'', was released December 11, 2007, features nineteen songs from Barry Louis Polisar, Belle & Sebastian
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, Buddy Holly
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, Cat Power
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, The Kinks
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, Mott the Hoople
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, Sonic Youth
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and The Velvet Underground
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, and most prominently Kimya Dawson
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and her former bands The Moldy Peaches
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and Antsy Pants
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. Under the Rhino Entertainment
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record label, it became the first number one soundtrack since the ''Dreamgirls
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'' soundtrack
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, 20th Century Fox
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's first number one soundtrack since the ''Titanic
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'' soundtrack
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, and Rhino's first number one album, topping the American ''Billboard'' 200 music charts in its fourth week of release.
Rhino announced in March 2008 that '' Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs'' would be available through digital-only release, a second volume of songs that were considered for but not included in the film. The fifteen tracks include songs by previously featured artists Kimya Dawson, Barry Louis Polisar, Belle & Sebastian and Buddy Holly, as well as Astrud Gilberto
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, The Bristols, Jr. James & The Late Guitar, Trio Los Panchos
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, Yo La Tengo
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and Page singing "Zub Zub", written by Diablo Cody as part of the script in a deleted scene. Rhino also released a Deluxe Edition
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, on November 25, 2008, containing both the original soundtrack as well as B-Sides in a two-disc set, along with storyboards from the film and additional liner notes from Reitman.
Although uncredited not featured on the soundtrack, Page and Bateman's characters perform an acoustic version of Hole
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's "Doll Parts
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" in the film.
Track listing
#"All I Want is You" – Barry Louis Polisar
#"My Rollercoaster" – Kimya Dawson
#"A Well Respected Man" – The Kinks
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#"Dearest" – Buddy Holly
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#"Up the Spout" – Mateo Messina
#"Tire Swing" – Kimya Dawson
#"Piazza, New York Catcher "Piazza, New York Catcher" is a song by Scottish band Belle and Sebastian, first appearing on their 2003 album '' Dear Catastrophe Waitress''. The song details the band's lead singer Stuart Murdoch's romance of his future wife in San Francisco.
...
" – Belle and Sebastian
#"Loose Lips" – Kimya Dawson
#"Superstar" – Sonic Youth
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#"Sleep" – Kimya Dawson
#"Expectations" – Belle and Sebastian
#"All the Young Dudes" – Mott the Hoople
#"So Nice So Smart" – Kimya Dawson
#"Sea of Love" – Cat Power
#"Tree Hugger" – Kimya Dawson and Antsy Pants
#"I'm Sticking with You" – The Velvet Underground
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#"Anyone Else But You" – The Moldy Peaches
#"Vampire" – Antsy Pants
#"Anyone Else But You" – Michael Cera and Elliot Page
Notes
References
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