Juno is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page 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, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman also star. The film was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned three other Oscar nominations including Best Picture. The film's positive reviews earned it a place on many critics' top ten lists. Juno earned back its initial budget of $6.5 million in twenty days, during the first nineteen of which, the film was in limited release,[1] and it has gone on to earn more than 35 times that amount, and becoming the highest grossing movie in Fox Searchlight's history.
The film confronted the issue of abortion, a sensitive subject in American culture, and won plaudits as well as criticism from members of both the pro-life and pro-choice communities. In the film, the protagonist Juno, suddenly realizes herself to be pregnant, facing the crucial dilemma and must make her decision whether to undergo an abortion or to have the child.
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