Juno
Short description
Juno is a comedy-drama about a sixteen-year-old high school student in Minnesota who becomes pregnant after sleeping with her classmate and friend Paulie Bleeker. Rather than go through with an abortion, she decides to carry the baby to term and give it up for adoption. With support from her father and stepmother, she sets out to find suitable adoptive parents and settles on Mark and Vanessa Loring, a well-off childless couple. As the pregnancy progresses, Juno's relationship with the prospective parents grows more complicated than she expected.
The film was directed by Jason Reitman, following his 2005 debut Thank You for Smoking and preceding Up in the Air, Young Adult, Labor Day, Men, Women & Children, Tully, The Front Runner, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Saturday Night. Diablo Cody wrote the screenplay, and John Malkovich was among the producers. Elliot Page plays Juno, with Michael Cera as Bleeker, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the Lorings, and J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney as her father and stepmother. Around thirty cast members and seventy-eight crew members are credited.
Made for roughly eight million dollars, the film took in about 232 million worldwide, a strong return on its budget. It holds a 7.4 rating on IMDb from 571,000 votes and a 7.1 on TMDB from 7,827 votes, while critics gave it 8.3 out of 10 across 213 reviews, placing it above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The hamburger phone belongs to Diablo Cody, who wrote the screenplay.
- At Ellen Page’s suggestion, Juno was a fan of Kimya Dawson and The Moldy Peaches’ music.
- If you look closely, you can notice a "hamburger phone" in the background and in Michael Cera's character's room.
- Before one of the scenes where Juno visits Jason Bateman's character, he is sitting at a computer reading the real blog of screenwriter Diablo Cody.
- This is the first film from Fox Searchlight Pictures to surpass the $100 million mark at the box office.
- The project was initially supposed to be titled "Junebug," but that option ultimately had to be abandoned to avoid a repeat of the title of the 2005 film starring Amy Adams.
- Filming period: February 14 – March 27, 2007.
- Initially, Brad Silberling was supposed to direct, but he left the project due to creative differences.
- When Juno is looking for parents for her future child, she says, “They have to be someone cool, like a graphic designer.” In real life, Elliot Page’s father and Diablo Cody’s ex-husband are both graphic designers.
- J.K. Simmons later recounted that he liked the script so much that he was willing to play the teacher even without any lines – just to be cast in the film.
- It was not easy to show all four seasons within 30 shooting days, and to achieve this, the filmmakers had to resort to various tricks. In particular, in the relevant scenes, bright spring flowers were darkened using digital technology to make them look like summer blooms, and off-screen crew members ensured the fall of artificial leaves during autumn scenes. A snowstorm unexpectedly hit Vancouver (which is extremely rare in March), and before the fallen snow melted, three different scenes were filmed in one shooting day, contrary to the pre-arranged shooting schedule. This saved the filmmakers a significant amount of money that would have been spent on artificial snow.
- Jennifer Garner agreed to a lower-than-usual fee in favor of percentage points from box office revenue, and as it turned out, she didn't miss out at all, as the film was commercially extremely successful.
- The scene in which Juno, played by Elliot Page, pulls the car over to the side of the road and cries was filmed after the shooting period had ended, when Page had already had their hair cut. If you look closely, you can see hair extensions.
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