When a precocious teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age dramedy. Now as adolescent Juno is faced with a series of very adult decisions, she will draw on the support of her family and friends in order to discover who she truly is, and discover that one bad choice can have a lifetime of consequences
Further Reading
- JaneMaree Maher, ‘ “Eggs in Many Baskets”: Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008), and the New Intimacies of Reproduction’ in Radner and Stringer (eds), Feminism at the Movies
- Diane Negra, ‘Time Crisis and the New Postfeminist Life Cycle’ in What A Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism
- Kelly Oliver, ‘Accident and Excess: The “Choice” to have a baby’ in Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down
- Jessica L. Willis, “Sexual Subjectivity: A Semiotic Analysis of Girlhood, Sex and Sexuality in the Film Juno’, Sexuality and Culture 12 (2008)