

There are already so many movies about unplanned pregnancies, stories revolves around handling adoption, the conflicts around them, etc. So, at the beginning I don’t pay too much attention when director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody made Juno.
Juno is actually a movie about an unwanted pregnancy too, but you will find so many moral of the story in Juno. If in previous movies the stories revolves around the hardship of the pregnancy, Juno teaches us how to always find the silver lining.
Juno finds herself pregnant after a sexual encounter with her best friend, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). Although at first she leans toward an abortion, going as far as to visit a clinic before opting not to go through with it (the deciding factor is that the baby already has fingernails), Juno decides the wisest thing to do is to give the baby up for adoption. That decision means she has to break the news to her dad (J.K. Simmons) and stepmom (Allison Janney). After all, hiding an ever increasing tummy for nine months is not really an option.
Surprisingly, the parents take the news not quite in stride, but at least without freaking out. Dad even goes as far as to visit the adoptive couple she’s picked out from an ad, and offers to help with the legal paperwork. Dubbing herself the ‘precautionary whale’, Juno remains at her high school although the sideways glances she’s used to receiving become full-on glares once the pregnancy is obvious.
As the delivery date approaches, Juno reassesses her relationship with Bleeker, a boy she’s always been attracted to but has denied having feelings for – other than friendship. She’s also forced into reassessing her plan to place their child with Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) and Mark (Jason Bateman) when the couple turns out to be not quite the perfect potential adoptive parents she thought they were.”
(www.movies.about.com)
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