Product Description

Explore the outrageous "Junoverse" of the year's most talked-about comedy with this 2-Disc Special Edition of Juno-bulging with awesome special features to deliver hours of laughs and tons of feel-good fun!Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is a cool confident teenager who takes a nine-month detour into adulthood when she's faced with an unplanned pregnancy-and sets out to find the perfect parents for her baby. With the help of her charmingly unassuming boyfriend (Michael Cera) supportive dad (J.K Simmons) and no-nonsense stepmom (Allison Janney) Juno sets her sights on an affluent couple (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) longing to adopt their first child.Running Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/COMING OF AGE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543515944 Manufacturer No: 2251594

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2965 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2008-04-15
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Amazon.com
Somewhere between the sharp satire of Election and the rich human comedy of You Can Count On Me lies Juno, a sardonic but ultimately compassionate story of a pregnant teenage girl who wants to give her baby up for adoption. Social misfit Juno (Ellen Page, Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) protects herself with a caustic wit, but when she gets pregnant by her friend Paulie (Michael Cera, Superbad), Juno finds herself unwilling to terminate the pregnancy. When she chooses a couple who place a classified ad looking to adopt, Juno gets drawn further into their lives than she anticipated. But Juno is much more than its plot; the stylized dialogue (by screenwriter Diablo Cody) seems forced at first, but soon creates a richly textured world, greatly aided by superb performances by Page, Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the prospective parents, and J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and Allison Janney as Juno's father and stepmother. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) deftly keeps the movie from slipping into easy, shallow sarcasm or foundering in sentimentality. The result is smarter and funnier than you might expect from the subject matter, and warmer and more touching than you might expect from the cocky attitude. Page's performance is deceptively simple; she never asks the audience to love her, yet she effortlessly carries a movie in which she's in almost every scene. That's star power. --Bret Fetzer

Get to Know Juno's Cast

Ellen Page (Juno MacGuff)	Michael Cera (Paulie Bleeker)	Jennifer Garner (Vanessa Loring)
Jason Bateman (Mark Loring)	Allison Janney (Bren MacGuff)	J.K. Simmons (Mac MacGuff)

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Customer Reviews

Addressing some issues...
Juno is important.

That might sound like an overstatment. Given all the rediculous hype surrounding this movie, I'd be likely to agree. But, just the same, this movie is important.

Why?

Because it got a lot of people talking. A lot of people stand against this movie because of it's subject matter; teen pregnancy. While Juno's initial reaction to have an abortion further shocked many people, these were the confused actions of a young woman who, after realizing that she cannot go through with an abortion, goes through the rest of the movie making the best possible decisions from the baby's perspective.

A lot of people think this movie promotes teen pregnancy. This is due, in part, by a number of teen girls who've seen and responded to the film. Others feel (wrongly) that it promotes abortion. But the movie makes no clear stance on abortion (much like we, as a whole, have not) and teen girls are always going to say stupid things. They're teens for crying out loud.

This film is a snippet of real life. Teens really do get pregnant because a late teen's body is the best suited for the job of procreation. The hormones drive them to it. They (teens) have been doing it sicne the very first humans andit was not until recent (very recent) times that our culture decreed that the teenage years are a part of childhood, and that teen should not be having sex. Yet, at the same time, we live in a culture that places sex into every aspect of life. The highest grossing models are underage girls... Kids have sex. Culturally, we encourage it while at the same time telling them not to. Getting pregnant is a risk, but why is it that we only blame the youths who get pregnant? Because I can assure you that most all of them are having sex.

Juno is important because it's an honest LOOK (not praise, not judgement) on an issue that happens, regardless of preceeding morals. What's more, being under forty, I found this is one of the few films that accurately depicted adolesence as I lived it. The characters and the language were familiar to me.

What I like about Juno is that it is showing a difficult thing but at the same time the audience can, and will, both critisize and sympathize with the character of Juno, who errs and then decides to do the right thing, despite the obvious difficulties and she does it all with the help of a loving, supportive family. Through the course of the ordeal, Juno learns to appreciate her family and learns what real love is. If you need a message in a movie then why not take that away?

Movie: 3.75/5 Picture Quality: 3.75~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 3.75/5 Extras: 2.5/5
Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50
Running time: 1:36:04
Movie size: 28,948,783,104 bytes
Disc size: 36,919,680,518 bytes
Average video bit rate: 32.52 Mbps
DTS-HD Master 5.1 4074Kbps (48kHz/24-bit) English
DD AC3 5.1 448Kbps Spanish

Subtitles: English SDH / French / Spanish

#Audio Commentary
#Featurettes (SD, 30 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes (SD, 20 minutes)
#Outtakes (SD, 33 minutes)
#Fox Movie Channel Excerpts (SD, 13 minutes)
#Digital Copy DVD

Practically perfect in every way
I have already had the wonderful pleasure of having seen this movie twice. I cannot wait for it to come to DVD. My local movie critic considered this the best film of 2007 and I truly must agree with him. While it's not like we haven't seen the story of the pregnant teenage girl before, it's been awhile since we have seen it done with so much grace, humor, and heart and fantastic characters that earn your care.

From the beginning involving a chair to the ending involving another chair, "Juno" moves effortlessly along in a simple-yet-gorgeous way that lets you view Juno's life as she sees it. No, it's not hand-held camera, but it might as well have been the lovable Juno directing.

What really makes this show work is its wonderful cast of characters. Juno is the crowning star, but it is not like the others did not pull their weight. Jennifer Garner takes her sweetness from "13 Going on 30" and channels it into an adult yuppy. Jason Bateman is relatable, even when it's painful. Michael Cera pulls off a heartwarming performance. Allison Janney almost stole the movie. And it wasn't just stellar performances. These are wonderfully written characters, all fully realized and unique and proud to be so as they deal with this very serious situation of teenage pregnancy.

This movie deserves all ten stars and all the praise it has received. It is well-made. It is well-written. It is well-acted. It has a great message. It finally has a teenage girl stepping up to take responsibility, even in a society that frowns upon adoption. I went through every emotion, from tears-inducing laughter to tears-inducing heartbreak.