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Juno
Review by Peter T. Chattaway | posted 12/05/2007

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What does the film say about the current attitude toward sex among teenagers? If everyone is doing it, then why does Juno cringe at the term "sexually active", or at the way adults try to get kids to use condoms, etc.? Is this portrayal accurate?

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Juno is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material (a high school girl gets pregnant and goes to an abortion clinic, where she meets a pro-life classmate), sexual content (brief flashbacks to the moment when Juno and Paulie had sex, though without explicit nudity) and language (about half-a-dozen four-letter words). There are also a couple of brief and mildly irreverent, but not hostile, references to God and Jesus.

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Jerry Star

Posted: June 23, 2009 7:30 PM


Awesome flick. Very funny and cool. I'm 49 and a guy and I've seen this movie 21 times. Better every time. You will fall in love with Juno. She's hard not to love.

GK	Posted: June 20, 2009 4:38 AM

Juno wasnt very Christian at all. Keeping the baby doesnt give it a Christian theme. That was a pro choice message. She chose to keep the baby and wasnt forced into some obligatory decision. Keepingf the baby doesnt mean pro life and aborting means pro choice. pro choice would ahve kept the baby as well if thats what they wanted. once again , there is a choice involved, thus its why its called pro choice. the chocie shoudlnt allways be abort always or keep always. its one or the other. The movie was a very women's rights bent. even the writer of the movie would tell you that.

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