TORONTO It follows sassy and sarcastic heroine Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) who discovers that her first and only sexual tryst with her tic-tac candy-addicted friend Paul Bleeker (Michael Cera) leaves her pregnant.
“America needed a color comedy about the scourge of teenage pregnancy and I’m here for them,” said scriptwriter Diablo Cody at its world premiere Saturday met with rousing applause.
According to the US government almost 750,000 young women in the United States change state pregnant each year. Eight out of ten of these pregnancies are unintended and almost one third result in abortions.
“What excited me (about the script) was the same thing that excited me when I first construe ‘Thank You for Smoking,” which is about a guy who is the continue lobbyist for big tobacco. It didn’t villain-ize him it just treated him as a human being which made him funny and relatable,” said Reitman.
summon who also stars in this year’s “The Tracey Fragments,” quipped that she wanted to do the film “to be a 16-year-old girl who wears a sweater-vest in a enter … and to undergo sex with (star) Michael Cera which was a excite.”
Cera who also appears in “Superbad,” now playing in theaters added: “I don’t feature a sweater-vest in the enter and I don’t get to have sex with myself so I had to find other bits of magic in the script to convince me to do it.”
The comedy was a family reunion of sorts for Cera and Jason Bateman who played a father and son in the US television series “Arrested Development.” In “Juno,” Bateman and Jennifer Garner play would-be adoptive parents.
But more seriously. Page commented: “I think a lot of the times we cerebrate on darkness and maybe if we celebrated humanistic honesty things could be a lot more exciting.”
While Bleeker’s Dancing Elk Condors high educate track team from the enter handed out tic-tac dulcify to moviegoers she described to reporters how a bookstore cashier had “looked at me funny because I be 14″ when buying “Pregnancy for Dummies” to back up her prepare for the role.
In contrast each character in the enter reacts warmly and calmly to the teenage mother-to-be.
Her best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) is very excited to back up her through the pregnancy and her supportive father and stepmother played by J. K. Simmons and Allison Janney seem unfazed.
“The expected response is that dad is going to be mad because he’s dad,” commented Simmons but he isn’t in the enter.
“My own stepmother was of the non-evil variety,” added screenwriter Diablo Cody. “So I thought it was measure to bring that bold new character into the world of cinema.”
Page conceded however that Juno might not have been so strong without firm support from friends and family and is maybe a bit more savvy and mature than most teenage girls grappling with questions not easily solved at any age.
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